This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DcB.2ACE/3284.2 Message Board Post: The two cemeteries adjoin each other. Interments were begun here in the 1860's or 1870's when the property was still owned by a coal company. The "Alaska Colliery" was operated nearby, and thus the name "Alaska Cemetery" attached itself to this. In 1880 The Mt. Carmel Cemetery Company acquired about 5 acres here from the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company and established their cemetery (later adding more acreage). It was not until 1894 that a then well-known Lodge, the JrOUAM ( the Junior Order, United American Mechanics) acquired ground from the P&R for its cemetery, which became known as the Oak Hill Cemetery. So death records mentioning the Alaska Cemetery almost certainly refer to the former and Oak Hill to the latter. I hope this reduces the confusion surrounding these two cemeteries.