Chuck Chin |
| Posted 2019-01-07 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Arizona Weekly Journal Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory Wednesday, April 28, 1897, page 3, column 2 News From the City and County (From Thursday's Daily) Chuck Chin, a chinaman, aged about fifty-five years died today and will be buried tomorrow. This will be the first Chinese funeral held in Prescott in two years, the last one being a vegetable peddler who was killed by his runaway team. ---------------------------------------- Arizona Weekly Journal Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory Wednesday, April 28, 1897, page 3, column 3 News From the City and County (From Friday's Daily) Chuck Chin, the aged Chinese who died yesterday, was buried this afternoon with all the pomp and ceremony usually attendant upon Chinese funerals. The services of the Prescott Brass Band were called into requisition to discourse music during the procession to the Citizens' cemetery, where interment was made. The funeral was attended by nearly every Chinese resident of the town, each of whom carried a red and white streamer in his hand. Transcriber's note: Mr. Chin is buried at the Citizens Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona in an unknown site. |
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