George "Kelly" Sunderman - Hythe, Alberta - Citizen Memorials on Waymarking.com

GEORGE "KELLY" SUNDERMAN
George "Kelly" Sunderman was one of the truly great pioneers of this area. By 1908 he had already established a homestead on the banks of the Beaverlodge River. By 1909 he and his partner had started a business at his homestead site - a business which included freight service and probably more important, a "stopping place" for other early pioneer travellers. Kelly's stopping place became famous over the years as travel increased to the west and north. The site of this pioneer venture is still to be seen by the river bank where, in later years, the village of Hythe was located

Kelly Sunderman was also noted for many years as a guide for hunting parties throughout the Peace area and for surveyors working on the Monkman Pass and Alaska Highway

Mr. Sunderman died April 4, 1958
Transcribed from sign

George “Kelly” Sunderman was the first to dig a well in Hythe and the town was soon known as "The Town of Flowing Wells. The well is situated on top of a large underground water supply.

Hythe Cemetery is within the County of Grande Prairie No. 1 in northwestern Alberta and was established about 1929. This cemetery has approximately 397 known interments and is about 8.5 areas in size. There is a circular roadway through the cemetery which is quite flat. The only trees line most of the perimeter. These seems to be a large unused portion to the west side of the cemetery, the roadway passes through this area.

There some interesting older headstones, with the newer ones mostly raised flat black granite markers.

"HISTORY OF HYTHE, ALBERTA
Hythe was first known as Happy Valley named after "Happy Fletcher" one of the early homesteaders. It was officially named Hythe by its early settlers after their home town in England. In 1913, the first post office was established." Source: Discover Peace Country