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He doesn't necessarily have to buried where he died. I have plenty of people in my tree who died in one place but were buried in another. As I say they used to live at Melkinthorpe, which is where his wife died, so it's not out of the realms of possibility that he was buried alongside her if she's there. When I looked at parish maps on Genuki, it had Melkinthorpe in Lowther parish.

Thanks for that. I'd thought of checking the newspapers for other "Mountain Home" burials and cross-referencing, but I only searched a year or two either side of 1917 and didn't find anything that helped. Looks like I needed to expand the range. Odd that the different name isn't mentioned anywhere, though it might be as you say a purely local name. Thanks again

I've come across a death notice in the Knoxville Sentinel stating that the funeral is taking place at "Mountain Home Church" with burial in the churchyard. Where is this church? I've Googled it, but unusually am getting no references for any churches with that name in the area, present or past. The cemetery database at Findagrave isn't helping either. There's nothing with that name in Knox County, the nearest seems to be in Campbell County, but it only has two graves recorded in it, both in the last three years, so I'm dubious. The newspaper was from 1917. Anyone have any ideas?

I meant no offence by that, and I apologise if it read that way. I'm just stuck on the idea that this one kid is buried apart from the rest of his family. There's a cemetery less than a mile away from them, which they used every other time someone died, but this one time they pick one 4 miles away... It doesn't click. I checked to see if Mt. Zion wasn't there yet in 1909, but lots of newspaper articles before that mention it. It's not an unrealistic question is it? When specifically children pass on, you usually find them in the same cemetery as their parents later are, right?

Could I be reading the death certificate wrong? On US certificates, where it says Place of Burial, Date of Burial, Address and Undertaker at the bottom, the address means the location of the cemetery, right? Or is it where the undertaker's based?

Maybe I've been working too long on this and am completely overthinking things. Maybe US customs are different. I don't know anymore. 

I have the death certificate of a child who died in 1909 which states the burial to be in a place called "Prospect Hill Cemetery" in Darby, Delaware County. Is there anyone familiar with the area that could point me in the right direction for where this might be (or where it was if it's closed/abandoned now)? All I can find with that name is a baptist church in Prospect Park about 4 miles southwest of where the family lived. Not impossible, but everyone else in the family that I've found so far ended up buried in Mount Zion Cemetery. I don't understand why this child would be the only one in a different place, especially when Mt. Zion was on their doorstep.