Chinaman LAST NAME: Chinaman FIRST NAME:  MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY:  BORN:  DIED: 18 Jan 1875 BURIED: Jan 1875 ETHNICITY:  Chinese OCCUPATION:   BIRTH PLACE:   DEATH PLACE: Reedville, Washington Co., Oregon NOTES:  OBITUARY:  CHINAMAN KILLED--Another unfortunate Celestial has met an untimely death in this heathen land from from his Flowery Kingdom. The superstition regarding burial in a strange land causes them to guard against such an event by the organization of societies. The members of each society takes an oath to assist a member should he be in distress through sickness or accident, or should he died, prepare his bones for transportation back to China for interment. To defray such expense a tax is levied on the entire membership, which is at once paid by them. When one meets with an accident his companions leave their work, no matter what it may be, to care for the sufferer.  The accident to which we refer occurred near Reedville on Monday last. For some time past a party of Chinese have been engaged in cutting cordwood in the timber near Reedville, Washington county. About noon on Monday last they felled a tree which, in its descent, struck another, glanced off catching one of the Chinamen beneath it, crushed him into the ground and killed him instantly. The excitement caused by the accident was intense, and not until some time had elapsed was the mangled form extricated from the wreck of branches and limbs. The body was dressed in another suit of clothes and the party started for this city to secure the blessings of the "Great Joss" for the spirit of the dead departed before the body was temporarily lain away in the cemetery.  Oregon Statesman 18 January 1875 3:1 INSCRIPTION:  SOURCES:  OS 18 Jan 1875 3:1 CONTACTS:  LOT: ? SPACE:  LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: