Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Kozaemon Ishida ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Kozaemon Ishida
LAST NAME: Ishida FIRST NAME: Kozaemon MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mr. GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: 17 Mar 1882 DIED: 3 Mar 1907 BURIED: 3 Mar 1907
ETHNICITY:  Japanese OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Mexico or Japan?
DEATH PLACE: Independence, Polk Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
OSBH, Polk Co., Certif #3183: Koyemon Ichida, male, yellow, single, laborer, b. March 17, 1882 in Mexico, d. March 2, 1907, Independence, Polk Co., Oregon; informant, undertaker and burial not given.

DISCREPANCY: C. M. Mitoma was the owner of the hop yard where Kozaemon Ishida died and the newspaper item uses the Mitoma name rather than the Ishida name in error.  C. M. Mitoma arranged for the burial.  Charlie Matsuda was a partner with Chotaro M. Mitoma and operated the hop yard near Independence, Oregon.  Chotaro M. Mitoma was sent from Stockton, California by the Horst Company Hop Growers, sometime before 1910 to start a hop farming operation.  Kozaemon's death certificate shows his first name with the Koyemon spelling.
OBITUARY: 
FUNERAL of JAPANESE -- The funeral of C. M. Mitoma, a young Japanese, who died in a hop yard near Independence Saturday, took place yesterday from the undertaking parlors of W. T. Rigdon.  Rev. P. S. Knight conducted the services and interment was in the Odd Fellows' cemetery. 
Oregon Statesman 5 Mar 1907, pg. 5.
INSCRIPTION: 
[Japanese] 
Kozaemon Ishida, male, 25, died March 3,1907. 
Funeral arrangements by Chotaro Mitoma, male, of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
SOURCES: 
OSBH DC (Polk Co., 1907) #3183 
Saucy
"Japanese Discovery of Salem, Oregon" Summer, 1992, Vol. 7, pg 47
OS 5 Mar 1907 pg 5
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 290 SPACE: 3 NW or 6 LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.227' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.726'
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