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Chu Pak, Died 1/1866, Age 69, San Francisco, Ca

Chu Pak, Died 1/1866, Age 69, San Francisco, Ca

Posted: 9 Feb 2007 4:06AM GMT
Classification: Obituary
Surnames: Pak
CHINESE NOTEABLE DECEASED - Chu PAK, late President of the See Yup Company of San Francisco, died a few days since, He was sixty- nine years of age and very wealthy. His funeral was a resplendent affair. Long tables were spread in Sacramento Street which were loaded with fruits, cooked food, a goat dressed with skin and horns, but all hair removed; hogs and sheep roasted whole, and decorated with flowers, feathers and a hndred nameless and indescribealbe ornaments, while incense was burned, prayers were recited and marches played by a band stationed in a veranda overhead, and dirges sung by mourners.

Sacramento Bee, 1/9/1866
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