Tan Yew Fong | | Tan Yaofang 谭耀芳 | Tan Yui Fong | | 4 | 102 | 1866 | Qianshan, Xiangshan County, Guangdong Province | 10 (Lunar Calendar) | Died at early age | Canton | (1) Winsted, CT (2) 1880: CEM HQ, 352 Collins St., Hartford, CT | Miss L.S. Hulbert | | | | | | Tan was dismissed from the CEM in August 1880 and recalled to China. 1 Apparently, he was not employed by the Government2
| | | | 谭伯村 Tam Pak Chun, probably a merchant with connections in Macao, Hong Kong & Guangdong
| | | Younger brother of Tan Yew Fun (Tan Yaoxun 谭耀勋 I, 21). Yew Fun was 2nd son, he was 3rd.1 | | | | 1. Rhoads (2011), p. 162. 2. In his letter dated 9 July 1888 to Miss S. Carrington (of the host family who had given lodging to the older son Yew Fan), Tam Pak Chun lamented the fact that Yew Fong had turned out to be an idle person who had fallen into bad habits. This reference and family relations data were derived from Lingnan University Archives, Correspondence, Box 184, Folder 3294, in Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, Record Group No. 11, Special Collections, Yale Divinity School Library. (photocopies of correspondence courtesy of Prof. Edward Rhoads). | |
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