Lin Kum LAST NAME: Kum FIRST NAME: Lin MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY:  BORN: abt 1853 DIED: 7 Oct 1909 BURIED: 10 Oct 1909 ETHNICITY:  Chinese OCCUPATION:  Housewife BIRTH PLACE:  China DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon NOTES:  BIOGRAPHCIAL: From the obituary of Oh Wong - "Services will be held at the grave only, as the idle curiosity of many white people manifested to a point of rudeness at the funeral of the late Mrs. Dr. Kim [Kum] some months ago has caused the residents of Chinatown to discontinue then public rites and services." Daily Oregon Statesman 20 Jun 1910 6:2 OBITUARY:  CHINESE FUNERAL IS MARKED BY CUSTOMS Rites Over Body of Woman Well Known Among The Local Celestials.  "So many Gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind; While all this sad world needs Is just the art of being kind." Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Midst strange rites symbolical of ideas that may have been very beautiful to those who understood them, Mrs. Kum; the wife of a Chinese physician, was laid to rest Sunday afternoon, in the little square reserved for the Chinese in the I.O.O.F. cemetery.  The services attracted a large number of Americans, many of whom were supplied with conveyances to go to the cemetery. Services were held from W. T. Rigdon’s parlors, where the friends of the deceased assembled to offer prayers and burn sandalwood to assist the spirit of the departed to enter into the joys of the world beyond.. The sandalwood, made into small torches, were lighted by the mourners, and placed upright in a box on the floor. Papers, bearing Chinese characters, were placed in the open casket, where the friends frequently stopped and gazed, two women among them, shedding tears and showing signs of real grief... Another ceremony was that of low kow-tows of bowing the head to the floor, and emitting a chant directed at the deceased, and while unintelligible to many, was not unmusical. At the cemetery there were incantations as the casket was being lowered into the grave, more joss sticks were lighted, and all the personal belongings of the deceased were burned. There were no flowers, but the grave was covered with nuts, candies, and a sprinkling of wine. A roasted fowl and large piece of cooked pork were placed on the grave.  There are many graves in the Chinese section of the cemetery, being marked by simple boards, bearing the names in Chinese characters, and it is a regrettable fact that some of the Americans in attendance at the funeral carelessly broke down many of the boards, and also crowded to the edge of the open grave to such an extent that the movements of the pall bearers were seriously impeded.  The graves there are only temporary resting places, as the bodies will be ultimately shipped to their native land. Many have been there several years, but are still kept covered by apples and other edibles. The ceremonies of Sunday were not a elaborate as those observed for a man, as women are not of much consequence in the "Flowery Kingdom," save as burden bearers and mothers of sons.  Weekly Oregon Statesman, Oct. 12, 1909, __:3-4. INSCRIPTION:  No marker SOURCES:  OSBH DC (Marion Co., 1909) #3155  WOS 12 Oct 1909, __:3-4 CONTACTS:  LOT: ? SPACE:  LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: