Mark Family

Sing Hong Mark was in El Paso, Texas 1906 to 1911. He was lucky to avoid his deportation even though he was a US citizen. Sing Hong was arrested because of the laws of the Chinese Exclusionary Act of 1882 . Sing Hong did not have an easy life since he was orphaned at age five in 1894. His story is revealed in his court case documents found in his page on this website.

Sing Hong left El Paso soon after his win in US District Court a confirmed United States citizen. He went to Chicago, Illinois and worked in restaurants as a cook and confectioner. It was in these establishments that he met Mary Labuda and by 1915 they were married in Lake County, Indiana. They continued their work together saving for their future.

Sing Hong began using the surname of Mark when the first child Lily Hong Mark was born in 1917. The Mark name was on her birth certificate and all the following four birth certificates of their children . The 1920 census shows a family name of "Houg", an obvious data entry error. The 1930 census shows the Hong family. And in the 1931 Chicago Food Dispensing License the Name was Mark Sing.

Thereafter, Sing Hong Mark was his name and thus began the Mark Family.