Ah N. Bing LAST NAME: Bing FIRST NAME: Ah MIDDLE NAME: N. NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY:  BORN: Abt 1861 DIED: 8 Mar 1914 BURIED: 10 Mar 1914 ETHNICITY:  Chinese OCCUPATION:  Laborer BIRTH PLACE:  China DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon NOTES:  IOOF - age 52, born in China, died in Salem, buried in "China Lot"  OBITUARY:  DIED Bing--At 435 Ferry street, March 9, 1914, Ah Bing, an aged Chinaman.  Chinese funeral services will be held over the remains this afternoon at 2 o'clock from Lehman & Clough's chapel.  The burial will take place in the Chinese plot at the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Oregon Statesman, 10 Mar 1914 5: 5 CHINESE FUNERAL HELD YESTERDAY A Chinese funeral was held over the remains of Ah Bing, an aged Chinaman, yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock.  Hundreds of punctured slips through which the devil must travel before the funeral cortege arrives at the graveyard, according to the ruling of Mohammed, were distributed about the streets and the usual amount of fried rice and roast duck was laid upon the grave.  According to local Chinamen, Ah Bing was too poor to have much of a funeral.  It is said that the celstial smoked opium until he became too feeble to hold the pipe.  Then he died. Oregon Statesman, 11 Mar 1914 5:7 INSCRIPTION:  SOURCES:  IOOF Register of Burials J. Plant Register OSBH DC (Marion County 1914) #963  Barrick #113 OS 10 Mar 1914 5:5 OS 11 Mar 1914 5:7 CONTACTS:  LOT: ? SPACE:  LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: