After their European tour they
returned to the United States and settled down as farmers in
North Carolina, adopting the name of Bunker. When forty-four
years of age they married two sisters, English women, twenty-six
and twenty-eight years of age, respectively. Domestic infelicity
soon compelled them to keep the wives at different houses, and
they alternated weeks in visiting each wife. Chang had six
children and Eng five, all healthy and strong. In 1869 they made
another trip to Europe, ostensibly to consult the most celebrated
surgeons of Great Britain and France on the advisability of being
separated. It was stated that a feeling of antagonistic hatred
after a quarrel prompted them to seek "surgical separation," but
the real cause was most likely to replenish their depleted
exchequer by renewed exhibition and advertisement.
A most pathetic characteristic of these illustrious brothers was
the affection and forbearance they showed for each other until
shortly before their death. They bore each other's trials and
petty maladies with the greatest sympathy, and in this manner
rendered their lives far more agreeable than a casual observer
would suppose possible. They both became Christians and members
or attendants of the Baptist Church.
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