Farm Family - Person Sheet
Farm Family - Person Sheet
NameSing Chong FARM 
, M
, MResidence1900, King St.169 Age: 14
MemoAge - 14
Residence1905, 2028 Wilder Ave., Punahou, Honolulu, Hawaii168 Age: 19
MemoAge - 19
MemoAge - 21
RaceChinese58
Alias/AKASing J.?, Farm SC, Sing J., Sing Chung; Farm Sun Chung (1005)178
OccupationMerchant Seaman240
Cause of deathAccident @ Sea
FatherLen Kong FARM , M (1838-1913)
MotherChong Ten Yun GUEN KAU , F (1856-1929)
Notes for Sing Chong FARM
-Also known as (Sing J.?, Farm SC, Sing J.168, Sing Chung201)
-He could read and write English and could speak Hawaiian, in 1900 he was 14 yrs. old, at school, attended school 8 mos.201
-Was a driver for Oahu Ice & Electric Co. @ approx. age 21 yrs. old; lived @ 2028 Wilder Ave.168
-Died maybe 3/11/08 @ approx. age 21 yrs. old on a merchant ship. Supposedly he was pulling up a hatch on the ship because another guy was trying to do it and couldn’t. Sing Chong was very stong. Well he missed and fell in the hole and suffocated. He was buried in a Merchant Seaman Cemetery in Northern California. (As told to Helen Farm from her husband Peter Farm).240
-This cemetery doesn’t exist anymore. It’s not named Merchant Marine Cemetery Vista Mmeorial, 1806 Hays Street, San Francisco, CA 94129, (415) 561-4323, presidio.gov/places/marine-cemetery-vista.
Way back in 1875, the Treasury Department built a U.S. Marine Hospital at the Presidio just west of Mountain Lake to provide for "the temporary relief . . . of sick or disabled seamen" from all around the world. Though located on the military post, the hospital was not run by the U.S. Army.
From 1881 until 1912, sailors who died here and who could not be returned home were laid to rest on a hillside behind the hospital. More than 500 mariners from 30 states and 43 countries were buried here. As the years passed, the cemetery was forgotten and turned into a landfill. It wasn't until 1989 that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rediscovered the site.
History Meets Nature
In 2011, the area around the cemetery was restored to a dune habitat, and the Marine Cemetery Vista was created to ensure that the long-departed sailors would never be forgotten again.
Visit the Marine Cemetery Vista
The Marine Cemetery Vista is immediately behind the former hospital, now a housing community known as the Presidio Landmark.676
-In an interview in June 1924, his brother Peter said his brother Sing Chong died in CA.229
-Chinese Historical Society of America
965 Clay St.
SF, CA 94108-1527
415.391.118849
-Chinese Mortuary Records of the State of California
San Bruno - NARA
Microfilm, San Francisco Chinese Mortuary Records, Roll 1, 1870-1918, Cabinet 65, Drawer 3
Tom Sing Farm: Tom Sing: Farm Chong
Age 38 ?
Occupation: Sailor
Birthplace: China
Place of Death: Hahneman Hospital (Hawaiian SS Company), San Francisco
Date of Death: 3/12/1908
Cause of Death: Septicemia following fracture of the left thigh
Name of Undertaker: G. G. Uno Company
Place of Burial: San Mateo at Chinese Cemetery229
-He could read and write English and could speak Hawaiian, in 1900 he was 14 yrs. old, at school, attended school 8 mos.201
-Was a driver for Oahu Ice & Electric Co. @ approx. age 21 yrs. old; lived @ 2028 Wilder Ave.168
-Died maybe 3/11/08 @ approx. age 21 yrs. old on a merchant ship. Supposedly he was pulling up a hatch on the ship because another guy was trying to do it and couldn’t. Sing Chong was very stong. Well he missed and fell in the hole and suffocated. He was buried in a Merchant Seaman Cemetery in Northern California. (As told to Helen Farm from her husband Peter Farm).240
-This cemetery doesn’t exist anymore. It’s not named Merchant Marine Cemetery Vista Mmeorial, 1806 Hays Street, San Francisco, CA 94129, (415) 561-4323, presidio.gov/places/marine-cemetery-vista.
Way back in 1875, the Treasury Department built a U.S. Marine Hospital at the Presidio just west of Mountain Lake to provide for "the temporary relief . . . of sick or disabled seamen" from all around the world. Though located on the military post, the hospital was not run by the U.S. Army.
From 1881 until 1912, sailors who died here and who could not be returned home were laid to rest on a hillside behind the hospital. More than 500 mariners from 30 states and 43 countries were buried here. As the years passed, the cemetery was forgotten and turned into a landfill. It wasn't until 1989 that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rediscovered the site.
History Meets Nature
In 2011, the area around the cemetery was restored to a dune habitat, and the Marine Cemetery Vista was created to ensure that the long-departed sailors would never be forgotten again.
Visit the Marine Cemetery Vista
The Marine Cemetery Vista is immediately behind the former hospital, now a housing community known as the Presidio Landmark.676
-In an interview in June 1924, his brother Peter said his brother Sing Chong died in CA.229
-Chinese Historical Society of America
965 Clay St.
SF, CA 94108-1527
415.391.118849
-Chinese Mortuary Records of the State of California
San Bruno - NARA
Microfilm, San Francisco Chinese Mortuary Records, Roll 1, 1870-1918, Cabinet 65, Drawer 3
Tom Sing Farm: Tom Sing: Farm Chong
Age 38 ?
Occupation: Sailor
Birthplace: China
Place of Death: Hahneman Hospital (Hawaiian SS Company), San Francisco
Date of Death: 3/12/1908
Cause of Death: Septicemia following fracture of the left thigh
Name of Undertaker: G. G. Uno Company
Place of Burial: San Mateo at Chinese Cemetery229