The eldest son in law of Foochow Headman, Lau Kah Tii, of Ensurai was the educated scholarly, Tang Yew Tung. He married Lau Hung Ing.
Uncle Yew Tung taught in Kai Nang Primary school until the Japanese Occupation distrupted his career.
He was educated at the Fuzhou University of Fujian before the Japanese War and was a political science and law major.
When he married my aunt Hung Ing who was then only 18 years old, my happy Grand Uncle prepared a sedan chair for her to "cross the door". It was a very traditional wedding and every one in Ensurai was filled with gladness. She wrote in her reflection how grateful she was to her father for arranging the marriage and for making her wedding so remarkable.
Uncle Tang Yew Tung taught in Kwang Hua School, Chung Cheng School, and Su Lai Primary School.
He was hardworking, frugal, honoest and a man of letters.
During the Japanese Occupation, he cultivated rice together with his sons to feed the family.
He was later invited to be the Headmaster of the Miri Krokop Chung Hua Primary School in 1953. He brought two sons to Miri at that time to serve the Krokop school. It was not easy to 'migrate' from one district to another in those days, so the younger children were left in Sibu for their education, with their mother. In later years after he passed away, my aunt moved to stay with her eldest son in Simanggang.
His hardwork in the education field took a toil on his health and he passed away soon after his work in Chung Hua School, Krokop.
It must have been hard for my aunt to be widowed at a young age. They had a very loving marriage.
Thus the older sons took over the managing of the household and together with my aunt, helped bring up the rest of the siblings.
My aunt celebrated he 80th birthday in Simanggang on April 7th in 1988 among happy siblings and cousins and her children and grandchildren.
She lived to a ripe old age and passed away in Miri when she was almost 90 years old in the 1990's.
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