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English: A view of the left side and rear of the gravestone of John Khia Soon Lee (1854? – 7 July 1927), which was relocated from the Bukit Timah Cemetery to the north-east corner of Fort Canning Green, Singapore. Little is known about Lee, but he appears to have been an importer and retailer of goods with a business located at 170-6 Orchard Road: "Nutricia Sterilized Milk [advertisement]", The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 9 December 1908, p. 3; "Socony Motor Gasoline [advertisement]", The Straits Times, 9 April 1925, p. 7. He may also have been the owner of 7 Oxley Road, which was sold by auction on 14 August 1906 for $31,500: "Sale of Properties", The Straits Times, 15 August 1906, p. 5. According to the inscription on Lee's funerary monument, he had 11 sons and two daughters. Following Lee's death, the law firm of Zehnder Brothers, acting for his executors who were his wife and two of his sons, placed announcements in the newspapers stating that creditors and other persons making claims upon Lee's estate should lodge their claims with the law firm by 30 September 1927: "In the Estate of Lee Khia Soon, Deceased", The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 13 September 1927, p. 4; The Straits Times, 19 September 1927, p. 3.

The inscription on the gravestone reads: "(front) In affectionate and / loving remembrance of / LEE KHIA SOON / JOHN / THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF / MADAM CECILIA CHENG HOW NEO / DIED 7TH JULY 1927 / AGED 73 YEARS / R.I.P. / MESSRS WALTON, GOODBY & CRIPPS LTD / MARBLE MERCHANTS & SCULPTORS / LONDON – CARRARA // (left) HE LEAVES ELEVEN SONS, TWO DAUGHTERS / EIGHT DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW, ONE SON-IN-LAW / THIRTY FIVE GRAND CHILDREN / & TWO GRAND SONS-IN-LAW / TO MOURN HIS LOSS / A BITTER GRIEF, A SHOCK SEVERE / TO PART WITH ONE WE LOVE SO DEAR / OUR LOSS IS GREAT WE WON'T COMPLAIN / BUT HOPE THROUGH CHRIST TO MEET AGAIN. // (right) ERECTED BY HIS BELOVED SONS / MESSRS LEE CHONG TECK / LEE CHONG JOO / LEE CHONG LIM / LEE CHONG LENG / LEE CHONG SENG / LEE CHONG NEE / LEE CHONG SEAH / LEE CHONG MENG / LEE CHONG JIN": see Alan Harfield (1988) Early Cemeteries in Singapore, London: British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, p. 294 ISBN: 978-0-907799-19-1.

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