Show original sial siamese ese twins lived normal lives the original siamese twins the famed chang and eng let P T barnum spread his tales that they were to be cut apart and were to go separate ways such publicity brought droves to the box office but chang and eng liked comfort as best they could get it with their uncomfortable union they knew something they knew for one thing that they could not live were they cut apart they had been examined by hundreds of physicians they also knew that the day one of them died the other would not live long no 1 matter how robust his half was it was over years ago that chang and nd eng were e brought to this country to become beco me so famed that henceforth their nime name the siamese twins was to be passed on to every other similar union of birth chang and eng were 19 years old when captain coffin of if the american sailing vessel sachem brought them to new york they were not siamese but three fourths chinese and one quarter malay divided by two ile he had sighted the boys at the amazing feat of swimming bought them from their mother and taught them english on the trip to this country they were intelligent boys boy who learned rapidly the pair was bound together by a I 1 ligature ig bones growing out of their breast the twins became a sensation drew big crowds and wages and adjusted themselves to living comfortably here chang and eng took the na name me of bunker w when hen they beca became me american citizens then they settled down in north carolina as slave owners met the fair daughters daughter sally and addle addie yates of a farm family down the road and one day bought two hearts wedding rings and four beat as one however sal sally ly and addie wanted privacy or at least and the separate homes home s brothers book by took care of that tha t establishing two homes they alternated with eng spending riding ahr three ee days sally and C hang chang then spending three with addie of course their social life always w was as complicated by the problem of man the extra all in all the 21 children siamese twins had were all of their 0 offspring ff spring normal and their descendants still live in in north carolina and Okja oklahoma horna kansas |