Mrs. Low Cheng Kiat nee Miss Yeo Chye Sim (Bukit Brown)

New Year 2026 started with a memorable adventure with a request from a descendant to Raymond Goh to look for the tomb of Madam Yeo Chai Sim, Block 1 Divison E, plot 48. The area is now heavily forested, but working together and after almost 45 minutes of searching, we found plot 48, but there was no headstone ! The plot looked like it was exhumed but that being said, the mound behind doesn't seem sunk in so we were not sure. Fortunately, with some perseverance and actual digging around the area, Soh Ah Beng uncovered a piece of the headstone. With more digging, we found the headstone that enable to piece together that indeed it was the tomb of Madam Yeo. But it was broken in half with a key piece of the name of the daughter missing. 

Digging the ground on the sides of the tomb, the key piece that made the identification and confirmation complete was rectangle stone in English that list all the names we needed to know ! It reads;

In Memory of the late

Miss Yeo Chye Sim

Wife of Mr. Low Cheng Kiat

Died on 23th October 1924

Age 40 Years Old

Sons: Low Kin Huat & Low Tian Siang

Daughter: Low Hean Neo

Miss Yeo Chye Sim - wife of Mr. Low Cheng Kiat 

What a start to the New Year with this find that enable us to meet the descendant request ! The amazing story doesn't end here. Check back this article in future as there will be further developments to this story.

From Raymond's blog post, i found out that Yeo Chye Sim and Yeo Siew Chuan are sisters.

Yeo Chye Sim's daughter- Low Hean Neo or know as Mary Lau Hean Neo alias Chit married Law Penf Siang (youngest son of Law Yeck Yew and Ee Beng Choo Neo). 

There is a headstone underneath the dirt !

Broken in half with daughter name missing 

Finally finding the rectangle stone that has in English the names 

[10 January 2026] From oral accounts of the family - The tomb of Madam Yeo Chye Sim (burial entry - Yeo Chai Sim), was not exhumed. The tomb was actually badly hit by some projectile during the Battle for Singapore before the fall of Singapore in 1942. This collaborates with some of tombs we see around Bukit Brown with marks of war and also oral account from some family of headstones being damaged or destroyed due to the battle that took place in the area before the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942.

A grandson finally able to pay respects after a long search (10 January 2026)

Location of tomb

Block 1 Division E, plot 48