BORN IN: Cal.
DIED: 3/12/1913
AGED: 58 abt
CAUSE OF DEATH: Pulmonary Tuberculosis
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City
OCCUPATION: Laborer
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BURIED NEARBY IN PLOT V63:
- Carrere, Louis
- Castro, Antone Richard
- Castro, Julius
- Delea, Mary
- Hattori, Tomi
- Kruger, Elsie Ida
- MacPherson, Emma Alice
- Mendes, Infant of Abe & Ella
- Pipkin, Infant
- Porter, Walter H
- Rehm, Benedick
- Rohrbeck, Frederick
- Scott, William H
CURRENT EVENTS:- 1860 The Pony Express
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
- 1861 American Civil War
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1866 Ku Klux Klan
- 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
- 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1876 Baseball's National League
- 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
- 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
- 1901 Teddy Roosevelt elected President
- 1903 First powered flight (Wright Brothers)
- 1906 The San Francisco Earthquake
- 1912 The Titanic sank
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OBITUARY ---------------CHARLES MON SAN
Redwood City Democrat
March 20, 1913
Charles Mon San, better known as ‘China Charley’ died at his home here Thursday after a lingering illness caused by consumption. The deceased was a native of California, aged 58 years. Hc had resided in Redwood City for nearly forty years and was well liked and respected. His mother was a Chinese woman and his father a native of Italy. Charlie did not associate with or recognize the little brown men. Many years ago he followed the occupation of a market hunter and shot ducks and geese on the local marshes, every inch of which was familiar to him. Of late years, he had been employed in the Frank’s Tannery. He was an industrious, good-natured man well liked and respected by his companions. The funeral took place from Crowe’s undertaking parlor yesterday afternoon. Interment was in Union Cemetery. Shortly before his death, he made a will bequeathing his entire estate, valued at about $1100.00 to Louis and George Genochio in equal shares. These young men were his friends and administered to his every want during his last days.
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San Francisco Call, Volume 113, Number 104, 14 March 1913
MON SAM IS DEAD
(Special Dispatch to The Call)
REDWOOD CITY. March 13. - Mon Sam, one of the most influential Chinese
in this part of California and for many years chef for the late
James H. Budd, formerly governor of California, died at his home in
Redwood City last night. He was a native of California aged 58.
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