Kenai Peninsula Borough AK Archives Cemetery ..... Pioneer Cemetery in Hope, Alaska

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PIONEER CEMETERY
Hope, Alaska

Pioneer Cemetery in Hope, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska is no longer used. Only three
markers remain. These are leaning against a tree. Some graves have washed into the creek
and others were lost during road construction.

The cemetery is near mile 17 of the Hope Highway. Cross the Resurrection Creek bridge and
step over the guardrail on the left side. Follow the creek upstream bearing to the right up an old
road. The cemetery is located on the bench of land to the right. If you come to the National
Forest boundary sign you have gone too far. For location of cemetery see Appendix. Read
August 30, 2003.
184

1. Al Harper
Died Oct 2
1928
Age 55
2. Altamon Knight
Died Mar 30, 1923
Aood 65
(Born Sep 1859)
3. Wooden marker with pointed top

On August 7, 1998, Berdie (Clark) Miller told Diane Olthuis that the following persons were buried
in the Pioneer Cemetery. The additional information in parenthesis comes from Alaska's Kenai
Peninsula Death Records and Cemetery Inscriptions and the records of Diane Olthuis

4. Lavinia "Aunt Vine" Mathison
(Died 1935 or 1936)
5. Bessie Mathison
(Lavinia's daughter. Born June
1885. Died between 1917 and 1920)
6. John Mathison
(Lavinia's son. Died 1914)
7. Mr. Rondo
(Spelling is uncertain.)
8. Fred Tiffany
(Spelling is uncertain.)
9. Baby Oskalkoff
(Child of Ivan Oskalkoff)
10. Tom Proziri
(Spelling is uncertain.)
11. Ferdinand Martin
(Spelling is uncertain.)
One of the missing graves may be
12. Mrs. Axel Rauti
(Listed in the July 19, 1914
Seward Daily Gateway as
dying on Resurrection Creek.)

In the 1997 map created by Rolfe G. Buzzell based on the map in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula
Death Records and Cemetery Inscriptions he spelled Mathison with an "e". The correct spelling
is Mathison.