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Most of the people buried at Block 14 were disinterred and their bones were sent back on ships to be buried in their ancestral villages in China. The last group of graves were disinterred at the insistence of Multnomah County in the 1940s which forced the community to remove the graves in order to develop the site.
The disinterred were sent away in bone boxes to Hong Kong. These boxes lingered in the Tung Wah Coffin House for many years. Their current whereabouts are unknown.