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Maggie and Mary Gibb (b. 1912, d. 1967) Claim to fame: Siamese twins. Buried: Forestdale Cemetery, Holyoke Born in Holyoke to Margaret Gibb, who is widely believed to be the first woman to survive such a birth, conjoined twins Maggie and Mary went on to live the next 54 years literally attached at the hip. They were among the longest-living Siamese twins on record, and worked in vaudeville and with the Ringling Brothers Circus. They died of cancer, which spread from one sister to the other, in 1967 at Holyoke Hospital.
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Maggie and Mary Gibb

(b. 1912, d. 1967)

Claim to fame: Siamese twins.

Buried: Forestdale Cemetery, Holyoke

Born in Holyoke to Margaret Gibb, who is widely believed to be the first woman to survive such a birth, conjoined twins Maggie and Mary went on to live the next 54 years literally attached at the hip. They were among the longest-living Siamese twins on record, and worked in vaudeville and with the Ringling Brothers Circus. They died of cancer, which spread from one sister to the other, in 1967 at Holyoke Hospital.