| MISS ELLA ABOMAH |
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| Abomah's only true contender to the title of "La plus grande au monde" was another Ella: Miss Ella Ewing (right). . Ella Ewing was known as the Missouri Giantess and began exhibiting 1890, six years before Abomah's start. She retired after 20 years and passed away in 1913. Abomah was then touring England but was forced to return to the States in 1915 as war broke out. Her plan was to open a dressmaking shop in Columbia, S.C. "to pass away the time" till the war ended. But a year prior to Armistice Day, impresario Sam Gumpertz of Coney Island fame induced Miss Williams to re-enter the business State-side. After a career of 20 years, Ella was finally able to tour the land of her birth! |
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| Abomah (please pronounce it "A boomer"), who will just miss the chandeliers at His Majesty's Theatre tonight, is taller than Sergeant Dooly standing on a candle-box. In fact, the dusky belle from South Carolina is 7ft 6in. barefooted, but she never goes that way. Abomah is eighteen and a half stone in weight, and sang in a church choir when she was a little girl who was bigger than the biggest big girl in the church. The lady is an earnest temperance advocate. - New Zealand Free Lance, 1905 |
| author's note: "boomer" is Australian slang for a large make kangaroo |