Pennsylvania cemetery whereabouts

[Silverhawk]

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.

[Erato]

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2227913/prospect-hill-baptist-church-cemetery

[Silverhawk]

Yes, I saw that, but as I say it's in Prospect Park. Would a family in Darby use it when they have Mt. Zion literally on their doorstep? The parents of the child and at least three of his siblings that I've found so far are all in Mt. Zion. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me that this one child isn't with the rest of the family? 

[Erato]

"Would a family in Darby use it when they have Mt. Zion literally on their doorstep?"

 I have no idea what your family would have done, but Prospect Park is only about 4 miles from Darby.

[Silverhawk]

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. 

[RJ137]

Just because a death certificate states where someone is supposed to be buried, doesn't mean they were actually there.
Seen this happen lots of times on death certificates. What's written down is what they were told by someone, who may not have known for sure or just guessed/assumed because the cemetery was local. I wouldn't get hung up on what the Undertaker has for place of burial, things can change after the death certificate has been filled out.
I would dig deeper into the MT Zion cemetery records.

[shellyesq]

I would expect the place of burial to be the cemetery, but I've seen death certificates where it just puts the town where the burial occurred.  Also, sometimes a mistake is made by whoever is filling out the form, or the next of kin changes their minds at the last minute as to the location of the burial, or a family member/friend had a free cemetery plot available, so one person is in a different location than the rest.  Sometimes it's hard to know what happened.  If either cemetery has a listing of all their burials, that might help to clarify things. 

The US doesn't have one type of death certificate.  States or other localities handle the death certificates, and they're not all exactly alike. 

[Silverhawk]

Thanks for the help. I would say over 90% of my research is British based, it's still a bit of a novelty to find a branch that moved to America (more might have yet, I just haven't found them).

RJ, would it still be the case that the burial could change after the press has published that it's happening on a certain day? Just for reference as I rely a fair bit on newspaper death notices.