[4] On her fourth birthday she was 4 feet 6 inches (137 centimetres) tall and weighed 94 pounds (42.64 kg).

On her 10th birthday she measured 6 feet 1 inch (185 cm) tall and weighed at 203 pounds (92.08 kg).

Swan later toured the western United States, followed by Europe where she appeared before Queen Victoria.

The giant couple became a touring sensation and eventually fell in love; they married on June 17, 1871, in St Martin-in-the-Fields in London.

He was posthumously awarded a Guinness World Record as the heaviest new-born baby and the longest.

[11] The Bateses retired to Seville, Ohio, where they built a mansion with high ceilings and door frames.

[7]: 87  The main part of the house had fourteen-foot (4.3 m) ceilings, while the doors were extra wide and were eight feet (2.4 m) tall.

She had joined the local Baptist Church in 1877 and attended services with her husband until shortly before her death.

Anna Bates died suddenly and unexpectedly of heart failure in her sleep at her home on August 5, 1888, one day before her 42nd birthday.