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Dateline 4 March Sunday 2012, Raymond Goh after a grueling morning tour which stretched 3 hours, returns to Bukit Brown after lunch and scored a hat trick which helped connect relatives to their ancestors.<\/p>\n

Tomb\u00a0 1-<\/p>\n

The family of a\u00a0 certain Mdm Fong Fon who died during the war. They family had contacted\u00a0 LTA who then advised them to contact me. They\u00a0 emailed me previously but I had not time to reply. So I\u00a0 decided to search for her the day before\u00a0 and found it, and today (Sunday) I saw them looking for graves at Blk 4 with some tomb keepers., Out of curiosity I approached\u00a0 them. They were looking for plot number 20. Bingo! It was the same tomb belonging to the same family who had emailed me. The plot number was indeed 205, but it was at Blk 3 Section .<\/p>\n

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Tomb 1 lost & found<\/p><\/div>\n

Tomb 2 –<\/p>\n

I was coming down from the Gan Eng Seng tomb when I\u00a0 encountered\u00a0 3 people looking for their grandfather’s tomb. They had never been to their grandfather’s tomb\u00a0 but recalled\u00a0 their father telling them it was somewhere up a hill. They managed to obtain the tomb number\u00a0 from the burial register, it was Blk 3 Section B tomb 389.\u00a0 He was a certain Mr Ng who hailed from Tong Ann. I led them quite high up the steep hill, and when they saw their grandfather’s tomb they apologized to him for not visiting for a long time. They then\u00a0 informed him that if it had not been for a volunteer to guide them, (yours truly) they would never have found him, and they thanked the stars for this wonderful reunion.<\/p>\n

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Tomb 2 lost & found<\/p><\/div>\n

Tomb 3 –<\/p>\n

This was the third attempt of a request to locate the grave of a\u00a0 17 year old woman Tan Lay Chee who died in 1932.\u00a0 Although the tomb address is\u00a0 Blk 3, Section C, 857,\u00a0 it was actually located at the very top of the hill, some where\u00a0 in Section B. I think for all of us, each and every tomb in Bukit Brown\u00a0 is precious, whether big or small, poor or rich, for it means something special to someone out there. It was third time lucky as they say, but sometimes the spirit of Bukit Brown works in mysterious ways and my last tomb find of the day, enriched me greatly at the end of a long day.<\/p>\n

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Tomb 3 lost & found<\/p><\/div>\n

text and photos by Raymond Goh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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