Unmarried issei from Hiroshima-ken, Aki-gun, Saka-mura (present day Aki-gun, Saka-chō). May have immigrated to Tacoma and worked as a coal miner in Oregon before arriving in Honolulu. Was working as a day laborer on a fruit farm at the time of his death from tuberculosis.
Sources:
1900 Ships manifest (line 7, unconfirmed):
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G5NH-9J5D
1910 U.S. Federal Census (line 84, unconfirmed):
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRJP-9MJ5
Territory of Hawaiʻi death record:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QY77-546Z
Territory of Hawaiʻi death certificate (requires subscription to ancestry.com):
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61694/images/48933_i601908-00245
http://www.moiliili.info/moiliili-japanese-cemetery-b.html
Sources:
1900 Ships manifest (line 7, unconfirmed):
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G5NH-9J5D
1910 U.S. Federal Census (line 84, unconfirmed):
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRJP-9MJ5
Territory of Hawaiʻi death record:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QY77-546Z
Territory of Hawaiʻi death certificate (requires subscription to ancestry.com):
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61694/images/48933_i601908-00245
http://www.moiliili.info/moiliili-japanese-cemetery-b.html
Unmarried issei from Hiroshima-ken, Aki-gun, Saka-mura (present day Aki-gun, Saka-chō). May have immigrated to Tacoma and worked as a coal miner in Oregon before arriving in Honolulu. Was working as a day laborer on a fruit farm at the time of his death from tuberculosis.
Sources:
1900 Ships manifest (line 7, unconfirmed):
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G5NH-9J5D
1910 U.S. Federal Census (line 84, unconfirmed):
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRJP-9MJ5
Territory of Hawaiʻi death record:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QY77-546Z
Territory of Hawaiʻi death certificate (requires subscription to ancestry.com):
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61694/images/48933_i601908-00245
http://www.moiliili.info/moiliili-japanese-cemetery-b.html
Sources:
1900 Ships manifest (line 7, unconfirmed):
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G5NH-9J5D
1910 U.S. Federal Census (line 84, unconfirmed):
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRJP-9MJ5
Territory of Hawaiʻi death record:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QY77-546Z
Territory of Hawaiʻi death certificate (requires subscription to ancestry.com):
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61694/images/48933_i601908-00245
http://www.moiliili.info/moiliili-japanese-cemetery-b.html
Inscription
釋淳心信士
大正五年二月九日亡
Died February 9,* 1916 (Taishō 5)
廣島県安藝郡坂村
Hiroshima-ken, Aki-gun, Saka-mura
川谷三助
Kawatani Sansuke
四十才
40 years old
* death certificate indicates that he died on 8 Feb 1916 and buried on 9 Feb 1916
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