Orovillechicochinese

AND DEATH CERTIFICATES

1890-1916

This information was taken from the certificates themselves that had been in a box stored at Special Collections, Meriam Library, California State University, Chico by an arrangement with the offices of the County of Butte and the Association for Northern California Records and Research (ANCRR-see Lois McDonald’s white paper). The certificates were sent back to the county in 2002. We do not know where they are currently housed and under what conditions.We have lists of burials from 1890 to 1904.  The Chinese practice of removing the remains of the dead for burial in their homeland required a permit. We do not have a good contemporary source for that process from Oroville. There is a good source from a Chico (town  20 miles east and north of Oroville) newspaper however. More