Kenai Peninsula Borough AK Archives Cemetery ..... Kasilof Boat Harbor Cemetery in Kasilof, Alaska

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KASILOF BOAT HARBOR CEMETERY
Kasilof, Alaska

The Kasilof Boat Harbor Cemetery is near Kasilof, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska. It is located
on Kasilof Beach Stub which intersects at mile 5.1 of Kalifornsky Beach Road. The cemetery is
7/10ths of a mile from the intersection and is located on the right in a stand of trees. The tops of
large rounded wooden grave markers can be seen from the road. Read September 4, 2002.

1. In memory of William Freeman
A native of Finland
Aged 65 years
Died Sep 30, 1906
(Headboard)

2. In memory of Alex Benson
A native of Sweden
Aged 38 years
Died May 6, 1907
(Headboard)

3. In memory of Harry Mason
A native of Norway
Aged 67 years
Died Jun 4, 1915
(Headboard)

4. Unmarked
(Grave is fenced. The headboard
was stolen about 30 years ago. A
headboard recovered by the
Soldotna Police about 20 years ago
and stored at the archeology
department of the Kenai Peninsula
College is believed to be the
missing headboard. This board
reads: In Memory Of "Fred Sandel 
'a Native Of Finland' Aged 70 "
Died Oct 9, 1925. Fred Sandel is
known to have worked out of the
cannery at Kasilof Harbor.)

5. In memory of Peter Bates Walker
May 10, 1935 - Oct 31, 1982
Good father, husband, friend
(Ornate wooden cross. Resided in
the house that used to stand next to
the cemetery.)

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This information is transcribed from "Alaska's Kenai Peninsula Death 
Records and Cemetery Inscriptions" compiled by Kenai Totem Tracers, 
copyright 1983, page 31.

Near the bottom of the hill on the Kasilof Small Boat Harbor Road there 
is an old weathered shack which has housed many fishermen during the 
years.  In a grove of trees in the back yard there are four graves, each 
fenced with small logs and each having a rounded wooden headstone about 
5 feet tall.  Three of the markers are still in place and very legible.

They are not maintained by anyone and no one having lived in the shack 
recently knows any of the history of these graves, but likely the men 
were all acquaintances and had compassion for each other to preserve 
their memories in this way.  Probably they were all fishermen in the 
area and with their Scandinavian similarities found themselves taking 
care of each other.

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