Rediscovery of a cluster of tombs via Adam Drive jungle nearer to PIE

November 09, 2025 seh ong

It was an attempt to explore what was once previously cemetery grounds along Adam Road between Adam Drive and Adam Park in search for the elusive tomb of Ong Ewe Hai said to be reinterred at Seh Ong Cemetery. This area we are exploring is now cut by the Pan Island Expressway (PIE) and we entered via Adam Drive knowing that there are about 4-6 tombs very close to Adam Drive (those tombs are still around). We continued walking a path closer to the PIE where there are warning markers denoting High Pressure Gas Pipeline. Expecting not to find any tombs in the jungle closer to the highway due to the fact that exhumation of this tombs took place in the 1980's due to the PIE construction, we were pleasantly surprised to find there were some clusters of tomb that remained after walking about 200 meters down this path !

We almost missed them but eagle eye Soh Ah Beng spotted the cluster of tombs uphill. I did a GPS pin-drop, but i am not sure if it is correct, so what i am also sharing is roughly the area where we found them based on also maps from NUS - Historical maps of Singapore. I also referred to National Archives Survey Department maps from 1970 which help me confirmed that there was a Chinese Cemetery in the area we discovered this cluster of tombs that was once part of the Seh Ong Cemetery / Ong Clan Cemetery. The largest and the biggest we saw was the below dated back to 1885 (refer to Raymond's blog on who this person is).