The Bunker brothers were born on May 11, 1811, in Thailand in the province of Samutsongkram. At age 17, the boys were brought back to America by the showman Abel Coffin. While in North Carolina, Chang and Eng began to date Adelaide and Sarah Ann.
They were planned to marry but locals disapproved of the brothers' courtship of the girls. Fearing for their lives, the brothers arranged for a separation surgery, begging to be separated even if it meant killing them both. However, the sisters intervened just before the operation and married the twins in a quick double-wedding ceremony. From then on, they spent alternating nights with their wives in their own houses and together fathered 22 children however, several of the children died in infancy.
In 1874 Chang, the stronger and more stubborn of the twins and a heavy drinker, which was worsened by the carriage trip in the rain between the two farms. He died rather suddenly during the night of January 17. Eng awoke to find his brother dead, and he called for his wife and children to attend to him. According to some stories, the family sent for a doctor, but Eng had died by the time the doctor arrived. By other accounts, Eng refused to be separated from his dead brother. He died three hours later.
The twins' fused liver - the only organ the twins shared - is still preserved in formalin at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is exhibited alongside a plaster death-cast of the twins.
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The Bunker brothers were born on May 11, 1811, in Thailand in the province of Samutsongkram. At age 17, the boys were brought back to America by the showman Abel Coffin. While in North Carolina, Chang and Eng began to date Adelaide and Sarah Ann.
They were planned to marry but locals disapproved of the brothers' courtship of the girls. Fearing for their lives, the brothers arranged for a separation surgery, begging to be separated even if it meant killing them both. However, the sisters intervened just before the operation and married the twins in a quick double-wedding ceremony. From then on, they spent alternating nights with their wives in their own houses and together fathered 22 children however, several of the children died in infancy.
In 1874 Chang, the stronger and more stubborn of the twins and a heavy drinker, which was worsened by the carriage trip in the rain between the two farms. He died rather suddenly during the night of January 17. Eng awoke to find his brother dead, and he called for his wife and children to attend to him. According to some stories, the family sent for a doctor, but Eng had died by the time the doctor arrived. By other accounts, Eng refused to be separated from his dead brother. He died three hours later.
The twins' fused liver - the only organ the twins shared - is still preserved in formalin at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is exhibited alongside a plaster death-cast of the twins.
Thank you for your attention.
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