China Mission-Chung Wah Chinese Cemetery
Folsom, Sacramento County, California, USA
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The last remaining Chinese family in the town of Folsom with ties to the Chinese of the 19th century was the family of Chan Oak, a Chinese merchant of Folsom. Since the late 1800s, the Chan family watched over the cemetery with a sense of duty and obligation that spanned the two generations beyond Chan Oak himself.
In the late 1960s, the cemetery was vandalized by local high school boys. The boys were found at school with Chinese artifacts, including two human skulls which turned out to be those of Chan Oak and his wife. As a result, the Chan family had their ancestor's disturbed remains reinterred and had a concrete "capping" poured over the graves. The set a conventional grave marker within the concrete.
In 1995, the China Mission-Chung Wah Chinese Cemetery of Folsom became listed on the National Register of Historic Places. With an approximated 1500 Chinese graves remaining in the cemetery, it represents a past Chinese burial practice that was initially intended to provide for the later removal of the Chinese remains for respectful shipment home to China for reburial with the deceased's family in a cemetery of their provincial homeland. This Chinese cemetery of California illustrates that not all Chinese graves or graveyards were vacated as was intended.
Source: www.usgennet.org
Info below submitted by Sue Silver, former board member:
Today, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation now holds title to the cemetery and is the legal cemetery authority over it. The Chung Wah Chinese Cemetery Association,transferred the cemetery to the Bureau around 2007-2008.
The last remaining Chinese family in the town of Folsom with ties to the Chinese of the 19th century was the family of Chan Oak, a Chinese merchant of Folsom. Since the late 1800s, the Chan family watched over the cemetery with a sense of duty and obligation that spanned the two generations beyond Chan Oak himself.
In the late 1960s, the cemetery was vandalized by local high school boys. The boys were found at school with Chinese artifacts, including two human skulls which turned out to be those of Chan Oak and his wife. As a result, the Chan family had their ancestor's disturbed remains reinterred and had a concrete "capping" poured over the graves. The set a conventional grave marker within the concrete.
In 1995, the China Mission-Chung Wah Chinese Cemetery of Folsom became listed on the National Register of Historic Places. With an approximated 1500 Chinese graves remaining in the cemetery, it represents a past Chinese burial practice that was initially intended to provide for the later removal of the Chinese remains for respectful shipment home to China for reburial with the deceased's family in a cemetery of their provincial homeland. This Chinese cemetery of California illustrates that not all Chinese graves or graveyards were vacated as was intended.
Source: www.usgennet.org
Info below submitted by Sue Silver, former board member:
Today, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation now holds title to the cemetery and is the legal cemetery authority over it. The Chung Wah Chinese Cemetery Association,transferred the cemetery to the Bureau around 2007-2008.
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- Added: 9 Feb 2013
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2483735
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