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Chinese Cemetery - Hope, Idaho

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11U E 550689 N 5344640

To find the Chinese Cemetery: From Hwy. 200 turn NW on Main Street and take Highland Avenue to the cemetery. It is only 300 meters. That is the easy part: you will need to rely on your GPS as it is very overgrown and you must look carefully.

While visiting Hope, we knew that an old Chinese Cemetery was in the area. After much searching, we stopped and talked with one of the locals. It was a good thing as she lived in the area most of her life, and after a long conversation she finally remembered that long ago she recalled there being an old cemetery close by. She gave us what information about its possible location, and the search was on again.

We stopped at several possible locations and finally we discovered it. We walked back and forth on the road and I spotted what could be the cemetery.

After much investigation, I learned there are actually 26 known interments that are now long forgotten. The Chinese Cemetery is a tiny abandoned cemetery located in Bonner County. It was established about 1890.

What you will discover are several graves marked with old wooden fencing, some are almost falling down. There is one gravesite that is just a small square cement flush marker.

Borleske Child: Birth and Death unknown
Chin Tuck: Birth unknown and he died on July 10, 1932
Chris Van Schravendyke: Birth and Death unknown
Cornelius Van Schravendyke: was born in 1839 and he died on November 11, 1901
David A. Button: Birth unknown and he died on June 14, 1900.
Died in the JC Hage Mine
Dorothy E. Teague was born in 1885 and she died in 1903
E. M. Clark: Born on August 25, 1825 and died on
September 14, 1890
Fond Den: Birth unknown and he died in September 1915
Frank L. Grant: Born in 1837 and he died on April 8, 1891
Harry Manning: Birth and Death unknown
Holand Kees: Birth and Death unknown
Jeanette M. Kilpatrick: Born on August 1894 and died on
April 22, 1895
John Stewart: Born in 1853 and he died in 1895
Katie Teague: Birth unknown and she died in 1898
Lai Hong: Born in 1864 and died on July 28, 1922
Monroe, Willie: Birth and Death unknown
Mrs. Ames: Birth unknown and she died in 1899
Mrs. Carter: Birth and Death unknown
Mrs. Harry Manning: Birth and Death unknown
Mrs. Hugh Smith: Birth unknown and she died in 1904
Mrs. McKee: Birth unknown and she died in 1894
O'Keefe, Mike: Birth and Death unknown
QuamTai: Born in 1858 and he died on May 27, 1924
Riemers, Baby: Birth and Death unknown
Sherman, Leonard: Birth and Death unknown
Towne Twins: Birth and Death unknown. Stillborn
Wung Jung: Birth unknown and he died on September17, 1914
Yee Lai: Born in 1866 and he died on March 31, 1924