Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Lee Chung ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Lee Chung
LAST NAME: Chung FIRST NAME: Lee MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1: Seung AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER:  MILITARY: 
BORN: Abt 1858 DIED: 5 Jul 1901 BURIED: 12 July 1901
ETHNICITY:  Chinese OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  
DEATH PLACE: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NOTES: 
Funeral ordered by Charley Toung.
OBITUARY: 
The remains of Lee Chung, the Salem Chinaman who died in Vancouver, B. C., a few days ago will arrive in this city at 11 a.m. today, and will be taken to Rigdon & Clough’s undertaking parlors, where the funeral services will be conducted at 4 p.m., and interment will be had in Rural cemetery. 
Oregon Statesman 12 July 1901 4:4 

CHINESE FUNERAL. The funeral of the late Lee Chung, who died at Vancouver, B. C., a week ago, was held from the undertaking parlors of Rigdon & Clough yesterday afternoon. 
There was a large funeral procession, fifteen carriages filled with Chinese and white friends of the deceased being in the procession. Two American customs had been adopted by the Chinese at this funeral -- three pallbearers walked on either side of the hearse, and all the Chinese mourners and the pall-bearers wore white cotton gloves. 
There is considerable complaint of the action of the American officials at Vancouver in the case of this unfortunate Chinaman. He was held imprisoned for two months and when he died, the officers notified his Salem friends of his death, and that it would take $70 to embalm him and forward the remains to Salem. The money was sent by the dead Chinaman’s brother, and the remains came, but the expense of embalming had been saved by the officials, and the remains were not in condition to be kept long above the ground. An investigation will be made of the case, and there may be some explanations called for. 
Oregon Statesman 14 July 1901 8:3
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SOURCES: 
IOOF Register of Burials 
Rigdon #16 
OS 12 July 1901 4:4 
OS 14 July 1901 8:3
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