Bethel Cemetery

The Pribilof Report 1949. Dr. Mark Dawber and L. T. Oldroyd in the Native Alaskan cemetery at Bethel. The cemetery was being undermined by the Kuskokwim River and the caskets emptying their corpses into the stream just above the city water intake. One of the grave markers reads: L. E. Bonham. Notice Christian crosses and not Russian Orthodox.