GEORGE TOWN: The ornate grave of a powerful woman who lived in the 1800s has caught the consideration of heritage conservators after her descendants publicised purported makes an attempt to exhume her stays and destroy the grave to make approach for development.
Nestled amidst low-density properties beneath a big, lofty tree, the grave of Foo Teng Nyong (estimated 1816 to 1874) lies off Jalan Bunga Telang in Fettes Park on a bit of land measuring roughly 0.25ha.
Her descendants, together with a great-grandson, revealed on social media on Tuesday (March 1) that the current landowners had contacted them and requested that they exhume her grave to make approach for development.
A descendant revealed that he obtained emails and calls and was instructed to be current for the exhumation which might purportedly have been carried out between Feb 22 and 25.
The descendant expressed fear for his ancestor’s grave, including that his relations are unfold throughout Hong Kong, Canada, the United States and different elements of the world.
The Star despatched a staff to test on the grave on Wednesday (March 2) and located that the grave was intact and the land confirmed no signal of any kind of supposed earthworks.
The land is at the border of the Tanjung Bungah and Kebun Bunga state constituencies.
When contacted, each Tanjung Bungah assemblyman Zairil Khir Johari and Kebun Bunga assemblyman Jason Ong Khan Lee confirmed that neither of them have been notified of any kind of development functions in the space.
By regulation, native assemblymen have to be notified to present suggestions on any development functions in their constituencies.
Teng Nyong was the third spouse of Kapitan Chung Keng Kwee, who performed a pivotal function in the progress of Penang and Perak in the 1800s.
Keng Kwee left such an impression on Penang’s financial system, public healthcare, schooling and social welfare that two streets have been named after him: Keng Kwee Street, the place vacationers at this time take pleasure in Penang Teochew Cendol, and Ah Quee Street which is the website of a number of iconic murals of the heritage enclave.
Teng Nyong gave beginning to 11 little children, one of whom was Chung Thye Phin, who grew to become a tycoon and philanthropist in George Town and Ipoh, Perak.
She can be recorded as the aunt of Foo Choo Choon, who at one time earned the moniker Tin Mining King of Malaya.
