Raymond posts a story about Nellie Ong, who died in 1941 from complications at childbirth and was buried in Bukit Brown Cemetary. Her grave was forgotten, but 70 years later she was found by her two brothers, now in their eighties.

It must have been 70 years now. Thick vegetation has covered up Nellie’s grave.

But an 80 year old man was still determined to come and say hello to his sister that day we found the grave. He must have been just 10 years old when his sister got married in a grand wedding at York House, Scotts Road.

How times flies…… He had not known where she was buried at Bukit Brown. But with the help of relatives and volunteers in Bukit Brown, finally he got to say hello …

How lonely she must have been lying there for 70 years ! But now she has been found

Nellie’s tomb stood near the path of the proposed road being built through the cemetery, and so her surviving brothers have decided to exhume her remains place her in a columbarium niche beside her aunt. Read this human story about an actual person buried in the cemetery in Raymond’s Bukit Brown Cemetery blog.