Mercy Lavinia Warren Stratton was an American proportionate dwarf, who was a circus performer and the wife of Charles Sherwood Stratton, known as General Tom Thumb. She was known as a performer and for her appearance in one silent film, The Lilliputians' Courtship, 1915.
Lavinia Warren c. 1860
The Fairy Wedding
Wedding photo
The purported baby of Lavinia Stratton and her husband General Tom Thumb
Charles Sherwood Stratton, better known by his stage name "General Tom Thumb", was an American with dwarfism who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P. T. Barnum.
Stratton at 10 years of age
The Fairy Wedding group: Stratton and his bride Lavinia Warren, alongside her sister Minnie and George Washington Morrison Nutt ("Commodore Nutt"), entertainers associated with P.T. Barnum.
The wedding couple as they appeared on February 21, 1863, cover of Harper's Weekly magazine.
Tom Thumb wedding gift photo album