GEORGE TOWN, Aug 30 — The 138-year-old gravesite of Foo Teng Nyong, the third wife of Kapitan Cina Chung Keng Qwee, has been exhumed and demolished despite appeals by her descendant for the tomb to be preserved.
“In the beginning, I was so alarmist and kept reminding how other sites had been destroyed secretly,” he said. He said now that the tomb was gone, it was no longer be possible to preserve the heritage even if the developer were ordered to stop work. “I engaged in so much correspondence with Rosli. I hollered warnings that fell on deaf ears. What else is there left to say?” he said.After finding out about it, Seow sought assistance from the state authorities for the tomb to be preserved and he even started an online petition which garnered about 1,200 signatures.
Foo was one of Chung Keng Quee’s many wives and she was the mother of Chung Siew Ying, Chung Thye Phin and Chung Thye Chong. He was dubbed the founder and administrator of modern Taiping and appointed as Kapitan Cina by the British in 1877.
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