Butte’s Mountain View Cemetery, located in the Flats across the road from a Walmart store, is a fascinating urban cemetery. Here is where, in memorial, you can encounter butte’s rich historic ethnic past, with the script of many headstones written in the deceased’s native language, so family and friends could member, without sharing with the dominant Anglo world that surrounded them on a daily basis. The people who worked in Butte from eastern Europe and the Middle East are rarely found in the standard history books but their stories are marked in this cemetery.
The small Arabic section is a reminder of the early immigration and contributions of Middle East natives who carved out their separate niche in Butte.
Mountain View Cemetery also has a moving, modern style Veterans of Foreign Wars memorial to soldiers buried within its walls as well as other sections devoted to those who fought for their nation, no matter their ethnic origin.
As several of these images show, Mountain View has few of the large, ornate Victorian or Classical Revival style grave markers found in St. Patrick’s Cemetery or Mt. Moriah Cemetery or B’nai Israel Cemetery. This is a 20th century cemetery where the memorials are not so bold but smaller, more intimate in their messages and memorials.
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Looking for grave in unmantaianed area hard to find or impossible, to bad there’s not an online list..or map
I’m sorry same thing happened to me, trying to find my grandmas spot. I’ve not given up though
Looking for place Samuel Warala who is buried in Mountain View Cemetery who died March 1931
Hello!
I have visited the Mountain View Cemetery today. It was very emotional for me.
People from Eastern Europe, you mention in the article, are Serbs from Montenegro, Herzegovina, and Lika, who immigrated to USA in late XIX century. The poverty in these parts of Turkish and Austrian Empires at that time was awful.
Inscriptions are written in Serbian cirylic letter. I have found a lots of Serbian family names inscribed.
If you need any help with translation due to any historical research, I will help.
I was born in former Yugoslavia and immigrated to US two years ago.
Last year I met father Russel Radoichic at the Holy Trinity Church. Not to mention how emotional it was for me.
Butte is the last great place in Montana, as my husband use to say.
Best wishes,
Jelena Webb Kalderon
Thank so much. The cemetery is so important
Thank you for the kind words. USA are usually percepted as a country with no history. This is so not true. There is a great history we need to learn about. I have sent the photos to my mother. She was thrilled with the state the cemetery is. I am about to write an article about my visit to the cemetery and share it with my Serbian and American friends and relatives.
We have written to U S Senators, Congressman and governor of Montana as well as the Mayor of Butte. The Mountain View Cemetry does not show any respect to those buried in the Pauper section, they don’t even know who or where some of those who died working the mines are buried. The Pauper section needs help, Lots of help, we have talked to the Care Taker and the best she can do is put a metal marker of your loved one who is buried there, and not sure where he is buried . Its overgrown with weeds and is in total disrepair…my Great Grandfather Samuel P Warala is buried there.
Pam & Carl Watson.
Hello, we are looking for my uncle’s grave. My uncle was Clarence Hepola. Clarence was born in 1911 and died in 1971 or so when I was in the service. Clarence is a military hero in 2022 he received the Congressional Metal of Honor for his service during WWII. He was a part of Merrills Murraders stationed in Burma. I have been told there is no marker and I would like to get one placed there. If anyone could help me locate his grave, I would be most appreciative, as I live in ND Thank you in advance for any help you might be able to provide,