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02'18'':
Commentary - different people come for different agenda. Some come to get rich, hoping  to strike lottery.
*Bus tour to see the graves. With running commentary.
(Conducted Tour. Running Commentary by tour guide (biggest tombs on higher slopes.))
05'03'':
List of pioneers had been identified.
(06'20''): Faces of tour guide with 11 visitors.
07'30'': Tour guide explained different races had different requirement for burial grounds - Chinese/Muslim/Hindu.
09'15'' to 11'25'':
- Lee Hoon Leong died on 22 August 1902 (1942) - one of his son is Chin Koon. Chin Koon is the father of Lee Kuan  Yew.
10'00'': Tombside had names of daugthers and sons. Tour guide talked about brief background of Hoon Leong and Chin Koon.
12'00'' to 15'00'':
Tomb (died 1939) with life-sized stoned Indian guards and beautiful carvings.
*Tour guide explained Qing Ming, grave yard features/ Feng Shui.
16'41'' to 23'27'':
- Biggest/Best kept tomb on higher ground, Ong Sum Leong Tomb with beautiful carving and stone guards.
(17'14''): Tour guide commentary - Ong Suan Leong wealth as main supplier of workers.
(23'05''): had 2 sons buried nearby - Ong Peng Hock, passed on 7 May 1963 (age 79) and Ong Boon Tat. Both sons started the  New World Amusement Park.
Extracted from 2006001516.
Ong Sam Leong's tomb (1918) is the largest at Bukit Brown (Kopi Sua). Beside his tomb is his son's tomb - Ong Boon Tat. The Ong family owned numerous properties and brickworks and is documented in Song Ong Siang's 100 Years of the Chinese in Singapore. His grandson is Ong Tiong Hwee, well-known lawyer and head of the Straits Chinese Volunteers. The tomb has many beautiful carvings, life-sized stoned Sikh guard, and stone lions.