The sad story of the Sutherland sisters, whose hair brought them millions (7 photos)

Sarah, Victoria, Isabella, Grace, Naomi, Dora and Mary Sutherland were born between 1845 and 1862 into a poor family on a farm. Mother girls died shortly after the birth of their last child, leaving father with thoughts about where to make money to feed everyone.





From the very childhood of girls, mother applied tonic to their hair, the recipe of which she and her husband knew. It didn't smell very good, but the effect was stunning: the hair grew long and thick, so that all the sisters boasted a beautiful mane of incredible length. The shortest the eldest had hair - 90 cm, while the rest reached a length of 1.2 to 1.8 m, except for Victoria - her hair reached as much as 2.10 m.



enterprising dad

It was on his daughters that the father decided to make money. He created the vocal ensemble "Seven Sutherland Sisters", and they began perform church songs and old ballads. They say that girls they sang not very well, but the audience did not come to listen their voices. They came to admire the seven charming girls. In their white attire, with their long, lush hair, they they looked like fairies. And all the viewers had only one question on their lips - how they managed to grow such braids?





Dora

It was at that moment that the father of the girls had an idea. He improved the formula of the magic elixir, saving it from the main drawback - repulsive smell, called it "The Best Hair Tonic on Earth" (well how else?) and began to sell.



All seven sisters with their father

While the girls were touring the country, Fletcher Sutherland was actively was selling hair tonic for a dollar and a half a bottle, which, by the way, it was equal to the weekly earnings of the middle class. Sutherland family quickly enriched, earning about three million dollars.



Naomi

After the death of their father in 1888, the girls built a huge a mansion for which no expense was spared. But before the house was built, one of the sisters, Naomi, died. It became serious for the sisters blow, but life went on, money was still in abundance, and girls did not deny themselves anything: alcohol, drugs, parties ...



Mary

As a result, Mary's younger sister ended up in psychiatric clinic, because she had problems since childhood psychological nature, and this way of life only exacerbated everything. Dora suffered from an opium addiction and later died in a car accident. Then Sarah died. Another sister, Victoria, was kicked out of the house when she married a young man, almost thirty years her junior.



Grace

In the 1920s, when the bob hairstyle came into fashion, the sisters became a relic of the past, an archaism.

In 1946, at the age of 92, the last of the sisters died, Grace, she was buried in an unmarked grave. The unfortunate sisters were completely forgotten.