Weird Tales/Volume 1/Issue 1/Ten Pallbearers For This Mammoth Woman
Ten Pallbearers For This
Mammoth Woman
When Mrs. Martha Carmas, of Middle Village, Queensboro, New York, died of elephantiasis, ten men were required to carry her body from the hospital to Lutz Church for funeral services. She weighed 710 pounds. A special coffin of immense size was made for the body. Mrs. Carmas was only thirty-three years of age, and, until she contracted the dreadful elephantiasis, she was not unusually heavy.