While thousands of Chinese residents lived in Montana during the late-19th and early-20th centuries, few traces of their presence remain. Scattered across the state, four cemeteries bear witness to their presence, and their passing. Numerous headstones, written in Chinese characters, commemorate Chinese Montanans and hold key information to more fully understand their experiences and transnational connectedness. A public history project currently underway seeks to translate and interpret these headstones to more fully understand the history of these individuals, their transnational experience, and to connect what remains from Montana’s Chinese communities with home villages in southern China.