SIAMESE TWINS' WIVES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 3242, 13 December 1930, Page 3

SIAMESE TWINS' WIVES

ALTERNATE HOMES AFTER WEDDING SISTERS. It has just come to light that Patrick Henry Bunker, an eighty-year-old inmate of a home in Kansas, is a son of the original Siamese twins, who were born in 1811 and died in 1874. r - For the first time he has told the full story about the twins. He has revealed that one had eleven children, and the other ten. They married sisters, had chills and other ailments simultaneously, but kept their own likes and dislikes in food. For nearly half a century the

twins, who received the names of Ing Bunker and Chang Bunker, were the eighth wonder of the world. They travelled all over Europe and America as a separate exhibition.

“These amazing twin boys, my father and uncle,” said Mr. Bunker, “were born in Ucklong, about sixty miles, from Bangkok. When they were eighteen years of age they were playing in the water when the captain of an American ship saw them and realised what a wonderful curiosity they would be in America. He made a deal with their Siamese mother, my grandmother, by which he was to take them to America. “After they had made a lot of money they married sisters, Sallie and Adelaide Yates,' of Dutch and

Irish descent. Sallie was my mother; she was a handsome woman and a fine Christian. “The twins were married the same day to the sisters. Father and his brother had a farm apiece, and had a house on his land. It was agreed that the twins should spend three days with one of the wives and three days with the other and so on, and that plan they religiously followed whenever they were at home.

“Father and his twin brother would stay at our house three days and nights and then they would go to my uncle’s house for three days and nights. Father had eleven children, and my uncle had ten, seven girls and three boys.”—Sunday Express.