Mount Moriah Cemetery (Philadelphia)

The cemetery originally occupied 54 acres but grew to approximately 200 acres, with some estimates as high as 380 acres,{{cite web |last1=Murrell |first1=David |title=What Happens When a Cemetery Dies? |url=https://www.phillymag.com/news/2016/07/30/mount-moriah-cemetery-friends/ |website=www.phillymag.com |date=31 July 2016 |access-date=23 August 2019}} making it the largest cemetery in Pennsylvania.{{cite web |title=Mount Moriah Cemetery |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mount-moriah-cemetery |website=www.atlasobscura.com |access-date=23 August 2019}} Philadelphia and Yeadon share almost equal shares of the cemetery with Cobbs Creek separating the two sides. After the construction of Cobbs Creek Parkway, the cemetery is slightly less than 160 acres.

A Norman Castellated brownstone gatehouse{{cite web |last1=Christopher |first1=Matthew |title=Mount Moriah Cemetery |url=https://www.abandonedamerica.us/mount-moriah-cemetery |website=www.abandonedamerica.us |access-date=23 August 2019}} designed by Stephen Decatur Button{{cite web |title=Confederates, Catholic, Muslims and Masons: The Mount Moriah Cemetery Tour |url=https://ruins.wordpress.com/2007/12/01/mount-moriah-cemetery/ |website=www.ruins.wordpress.com |date=December 2007 |access-date=23 August 2019}} was built at the entrance on Islington Lane, today known as Kingsessing Avenue. A single gated arch was topped with an imposing statue of Father Time. The statue was purchased, removed from the gate and placed atop the grave of John H. Jones.

The cemetery contains two separate military burial plots dating back to the U.S. Civil War that are maintained by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Naval Plot on the Yeadon side of the cemetery contains 2,400 graves of sailors who were treated at the Grays Ferry Avenue Naval Hospital. A smaller plot of 406 graves known as the Soldier's Rest{{cite web |title=Mount Moriah Cemetery Naval Plot and Soldiers' Lot Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |url=https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/national_cemeteries/Pennsylvania/Mount_Moriah_Cemetery_Naval_Plot_and_Soldiers_Lot.html |website=www.nps.gov |access-date=23 August 2019}} is on the Philadelphia side of the cemetery. Mount Moriah contains veterans of the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War and 25 Medal of Honor awardees{{cite web |last1=Boccella |first1=Kathy |title=Historic cemetery reveals Medal of Honor winners |url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/20130925_Historic_cemetery_reveals_Medal_of_Honor_winners.html |website=www.inquirer.com |date=25 September 2013 |publisher=The Philadelphia Inquirer |access-date=9 May 2024}} which may be the highest number of any private cemetery.{{cite web |last1=Blumgart |first1=Jake |title=Mount Moriah cemetery could become nature sanctuary |url=https://whyy.org/articles/mount-moriah-cemetery-could-become-nature-sanctuary/ |website=www.whyy.org |access-date=23 August 2019}} There is one British Commonwealth war grave of a soldier of the Royal Scots from World War I.[https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/4010459/MALCOLM%20MacFARLANE/] CWGC casualty record.

One section of the cemetery, known as the Circle of St. John or Masons Circle,{{cite web |last1=Arvedlud |first1=Erin E. |title=Keeping Mount Moriah Cemetery, and its memories, alive |url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/business/20160410_Keeping_Mount_Moriah_Cemetery__and_its_memories__alive.html |website=www.inquirer.com |date=10 April 2016 |access-date=28 August 2019}} contains the Schnider monument, a 35-foot high Corinthian column topped by the Masonic square and compasses dedicated to William B. Schnider, the Grand Tyler of Pennsylvania's Central Grand Lodge.

File:The Circle of St. John with the Schnider Monument in the center.jpg

The size of the cemetery made it ideal for churches and fraternal organizations that wanted to purchase large plots for their members. The Free and Accepted Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Elks,{{sfn|Webster|2014|p=152}} Actors' Order of Friendship{{Cite news|date=November 18, 1877|title=Death of Mr. Edwin Adams|work=The Era (London)|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66346319/death-of-mr-edwin-adams-mentions-actor/|access-date=June 24, 2021}} and Order of United American Mechanics all purchased large lots in the cemetery.{{sfn|Keels|2003|p=53}} Local private institutions, including the Presbyterian Home for Widows and Single Women and the Seaman's Church Institute also purchased large lots.{{sfn|Webster|2014|p=152}}

File:John H. Jones gravestone with Father Time Mount Moriah Cemetery Philadelphia.jpg adorns the grave of John H. Jones. It used to sit atop the entrance gate]]

Mount Moriah Cemetery was established by an act of the Pennsylvania Legislature and incorporated on March 27, 1855.{{cite book |last1=Scharf |first1=John Thomas |title=History of Philadelphia, 1609–1884 |date=1884 |publisher=L.H. Everts & Co. |location=Philadelphia |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8uYkAAAAYAAJ/page/n744 2360] |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8uYkAAAAYAAJ |quote=moriah. |access-date=23 August 2019}} The cemetery was expanded to approximately 380 acres, spanning Cobbs Creek into the Borough of Yeadon in adjacent Delaware County, making it the largest cemetery in Pennsylvania.

File:Besty Ross Flagpole and historic marker at Mount Moriah Cemetery Philadelphia.jpg erected a flagpole to commemorate the estimated burial site of Betsy Ross]]

In 1856, the remains of Betsy Ross and her third husband John Claypoole were moved from the Free Quaker Burying Ground in Philadelphia to Mount Moriah.{{Cite news|url=https://strangeremains.com/2016/06/30/rediscovering-betsy-ross-bones/|title=Rediscovering Betsy Ross' bones|date=2016-07-01|work=Strange Remains|access-date=2018-07-21|language=en-US}} The practice of cemeteries purchasing the remains of famous historical individuals was common in order to drive additional business. The Daughters of the American Revolution erected a flagpole at the site of her grave in her memory.{{sfn|Webster|2014|p=152}}

File:Mt Moriah Philly Civil War graves.JPG

File:Naval Plot at Mount Moriah Cemetery.jpg

Mount Moriah is a part of the United States National Cemetery System.{{cite book |last=Holt |first=Dean W. |title=American Military Cemeteries, 2d ed. |publisher=McFarland |year=2009 |pages=397 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UtGA-cP3-HsC&pg=PA233 |isbn=978-0786440238}} See p. 233. In 1864, the United States Federal Government purchased two parcels of land within Mount Moriah Cemetery. The Soldiers' Lot on the Philadelphia side of the cemetery was purchased for soldiers who died at local military hospitals and contains 404 Union Army soldiers. The lot initially included the remains of six Confederate soldiers,{{cite book |title=Index to the Senate Executive Documents for the Second Session of the Forty-first Congress of the United States of America 1869–70 |date=1870 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington |page=10 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9IcFAAAAQAAJ |access-date=1 September 2022}} however in 1885 all but two were reinterred at Philadelphia National Cemetery.{{cite web |title=Mount Moriah Cemetery Soldiers' Lot |url=https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/lots/mountmoriah.asp |website=www.cem.va.gov |access-date=23 August 2019}} The Naval Plot on the Yeadon side of the cemetery is ten acres in size and was purchased for the reinterment of bodies previously buried at the U.S. Naval Home. The Naval Plot today contains 2,400 U.S. Navy officers and seamen.

In the early 1870s, Henry Jones, an affluent African-American man who worked as a caterer, purchased a lot for burial in Mount Moriah Cemetery. After his death in 1875, his funeral procession was blocked from entering the cemetery by white lot owners and cemetery authorities who refused to bury him because of his race.{{cite web |title=Hidden in Plain Sight: Cemeteries and Civil Rights |url=https://www.civilrightsafterlife.com/the-stories |website=www.civilrightsafterlife.com |access-date=4 May 2021}} A lawsuit was filed against the Mount Moriah Cemetery Association and in 1876 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court{{cite web |last1=Wysong |first1=Lori |title=Cemeteries, Segregation, and the Funerals of Henry Jones |url=https://hiddencityphila.org/2020/10/cemeteries-segregation-and-the-funerals-of-henry-jones/ |website=www.hiddencityphila.org |date=9 October 2020 |access-date=11 December 2020}} ruled that Jones had the right to be buried in the cemetery.{{cite web |title=Mount Moriah Cemetery Naval Plot |url=https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/lots/mountmoriah_Naval.asp |website=www.cem.va.gov |access-date=23 August 2019}} During the court case, his body was stored at a funeral vault at Lebanon Cemetery in Philadelphia. Jones' family had decided to bury him at Lebanon Cemetery but he may have been buried at the Church of St. James the Less cemetery in Philadelphia instead.

In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration program performed work at Mount Moriah Cemetery to improve the drainage system throughout the cemetery.{{sfn|Webster|2014|p=156}}

File:Soldiers Home Memorial in Laurel Hill Cemetery.jpg]]

In 1970, a 700-pound, 7 foot 2 inch high bronze statue of a Civil War soldier was removed from its base and stolen by thieves. The statue was named "The Silent Sentry", cast at the Bureau Brothers Foundry and dedicated in 1883. It was originally placed in the Soldiers' Home of Philadelphia burial plot. The thieves attempted to sell the statue for scrap metal to a Camden, New Jersey, scrap yard but the scrap dealer notified the authorities.{{cite web |title=The Silent Sentry will now stand watch in Laurel Hill Cemetery |url=http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3710 |website=www.civilwarcavalry.com |access-date=26 July 2020}} It was recovered and repaired by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. In 2013, the statue was relocated and rededicated in Laurel Hill Cemetery.{{cite web |title="Silent Sentry" historic Civil War memorial statue moved to Laurel Hill Cemetery |url=https://www.montgomerynews.com/roxreview/communities/silent-sentry-historic-civil-war-memorial-statue-moved-to-laurel-hill-cemetery/article_e8759d1a-a7e3-5070-96b9-807fef666b2b.html |website=www.montgomerynews.com |publisher=The Review |access-date=25 July 2020}}

In December 1975, Betsy Ross's descendants petitioned to have her remains moved to the Betsy Ross House. The headstone at her grave had been stolen years before.{{sfn|Webster|2014|p=156}} A physical anthropologist, Dr. Alan Mann, moved some bones in 1976 from the estimated vicinity of her grave but was unable to determine whether they belonged to Ross or not.{{cite web |last1=Cheney |first1=Jim |title=Exploring Philadelphia's Overgrown Burial Grounds: Mount Moriah Cemetery |url=https://uncoveringpa.com/exploring-moriah-cemetery-philadelphia |website=www.uncoveringpa.com |date=11 May 2015 |access-date=23 August 2019}}

Horatio Jones, the last known member of the Mount Moriah Cemetery Association, died in 2004 and the cemetery closed its gates in 2011 in a unique legal situation having no known owner. In 2012, due to complaints and reports of the deteriorating situation, Philadelphia and Yeadon formed the Mount Moriah Cemetery Preservation Corporation, a 7-member board charged with building a redevelopment plan for the cemetery.{{cite web |last1=Forsythe |first1=Pamela J. |title=The long road ahead to resurrect Mount Moriah |url=https://whyy.org/articles/the-long-road-ahead-to-resurrect-mount-moriah/ |website=www.whyy.org |access-date=30 August 2019}} In 2014, Philadelphia Orphan's Court appointed Mount Moriah Cemetery Preservation Corporation as receiver for the long neglected cemetery.{{cite web |title=History |url=http://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/history/ |website=www.friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org |access-date=25 August 2019}} The Friends of Mount Moriah Cemetery, Inc., a non-profit organization, held regular restoration events and progress was made to return the cemetery to normal condition. Expected annual maintenance costs are about $500,000.{{cite news|last=Bolling|first=Louis|title=Mount Moriah Cemetery clean up a moving experience|url=http://www.phillytrib.com/delawaremetroarticles/item/4216-mount-moriah-cemetery-clean-up-a-moving-experience.html|access-date=January 21, 2013|newspaper=Philadelphia Tribune|date=May 23, 2012}}

In February 2015, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission announced that the cemetery was eligible to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places, subject to review by the NRHP. The Friends of Mount Moriah Cemetery raised funds to stabilize the crumbling gatehouse.{{cite web |title=Mount Moriah Cemetery Gatehouse Receives Award |url=https://www.wje.com/news/detail/mount-moriah-cemetery-gatehouse-receives-award |website=wje.com |publisher=Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, INC. |access-date=30 August 2024 |location=Northbrook, Illinois |date=16 March 2018}}

In January 2019, the Friends of Mount Moriah Cemetery presented their strategic plan to the Philadelphia City Planning Commission to convert Mount Moriah Cemetery into a nature sanctuary similar to the nearby Bartram's Garden and John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge.

While Mount Moriah ceased to be an active burial ground after 2011, the Orphan's Court has permitted two interments to take place. Paulette Rhone, the president of the Friends of Mount Moriah Cemetery, died in February 2019. The Friends petitioned the Orphan's Court to allow her burial in the cemetery.{{cite web |last1=Newall |first1=Mike |title=She tended Mount Moriah until her death. Now her friends hope to bury her in the abandoned cemetery |url=https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/mount-moriah-paulette-rhone-cemetery-philadelphia-20190301.html |website=www.inquirer.com |date=March 2019 |access-date=30 August 2019}} She was interred in the grave site next to her late husband.{{cite web |last1=Riordan |first1=Kevin |title=Reclaiming Philly's Mount Moriah Cemetery from ruin means sustaining its arboretum, as well |url=https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate/gardening/restoring-mount-moriah-abandoned-cemetery-southwest-philadelphia-arboretum-20220427.html |website=www.inquirer.com |date=27 April 2022 |access-date=26 August 2024}} Her efforts on behalf of the cemetery and the community were honored in August 2019 by symbolically renaming the section of Kingsessing Avenue in front of the cemetery "Paulette Rhone Place."{{Cite web|last=Park|first=Katie|title=Across the street from the abandoned cemetery she saved, a Philadelphia activist gets her due — and a street sign|url=https://www.inquirer.com/news/paulette-rhone-street-renaming-philadelphia-mount-moriah-cemetery-20190810.html|access-date=2020-10-01|website=www.inquirer.com|date=10 August 2019}} Another interment was permitted in July 2024 when almost 500 sets of bones, disinterred from the former location of First Baptist Church cemetery in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, were re-interred in Mount Moriah Cemetery. The bones had been in storage since 2017 when they were unearthed during the construction of apartments. The bones were re-buried in the First Baptist Church section of Mount Moriah where the majority of remains from the original First Baptist Church cemetery had been re-interred in 1860.{{cite web |last1=Russ |first1=Valerie |title=Philly's First Baptist Church cemetery remains — nearly 500 who died between 1707 and 1859 — were quietly reburied last week |url=https://www.inquirer.com/news/first-baptist-church-remains-reburied-20240729.html?query=mount%20moriah |website=www.inquirer.com |date=29 July 2024 |publisher=The Philadelphia Inquirer |access-date=31 July 2024}}

{{external media | width = 210px | float = right | headerimage=200px | video1 = [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsezHCWifsU In Memoriam], Courtney Coombs{{cite web | title =In Memoriam | publisher =Courtney Coombs | date =December 10, 2013 | url =https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsezHCWifsU | access-date =December 21, 2013 }} 16:12, December 2013}}

{{external media | width = 210px | float = right | headerimage=210px |video1 = [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Fa6kUeTAY 3D Laser Scan: Mount Moriah Cemetery Gatehouse] (1:05), DJS Associates{{cite web | title =Digitally Preserving A Historical Philadelphia Landmark | publisher =DJS Associates | date = February 9, 2015 | url =http://www.djsscans.com/blog/digitally-preserving-a-historical-philadelphia-landmark | access-date =February 17, 2016 }} }}

{{Category see also |Burials at Mount Moriah Cemetery (Philadelphia)}}

• Edwin Adams (1834–1877), stage actor[https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/edwin-adams-1834-1877-actor/ Edwin Adams], Friends of Mount Moriah Cemetery (FOMMCI)
• Charles Baker (1809–1891), Medal of Honor recipient[https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/charles-baker-1809-1891/ Charles Baker], FOMMCI
• Albert Beyer (1859–1929), Medal of Honor recipient[https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/albert-beyer-1859-1929/ Albert Beyer], FOMMCI
• Annie Kemp Bowler (? – 1876), stage actress and singer
• Augustus C. Buell (1847–1904), fraudulent author[http://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/augustus-buell-1847-1904-fraudulent-author/ Augustus Buell], FOMMCI
• Richard Risley Carlisle (1814–1874), gymnast and acrobat
• George Connell (1871–1955), mayor of Philadelphia[https://www.phillytrib.com/metros/metros-delaware-county/mount-moriah-cemetery-clean-up-a-moving-experience/article_b1f6ec93-dd83-5530-97ac-16d9f66a6b27.html Mount Moriah Cemetery clean up a moving experience]
• William Cusick aka Mickey Duffy (1888–1931), prohibition era mobster
• George Deary (1845–1901), Medal of Honor recipient[http://www.vconline.org.uk/george-deary/4591770170 George Deary], vconline.org.uk
• John Deasley (1864–1910), professional baseball player
• Pat Deasley (1857–1943), professional baseball player[https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/thomas-h-pat-deasley-baseball-player/ Pat Deasley], FOMMCI
• George B. Dovey (d. 1909), president and owner of the Boston Doves National League Baseball Club{{cite web| url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/06/20/106720261.pdf | title= Baseball President Dead: George Dovey of Boston Passes Away on a Railroad Train | date= June 20, 1909| work= The New York Times |access-date=2011-09-16}}
• Israel Wilson Durham (1855–1909), state senator, owner of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team{{cite web |title=Israel Wilson Durham |date=26 May 2021 |url=http://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/israel-wilson-durham-politician-and-ownerpresident-of-the-phillies/}}
• Jesse Elliott (1782–1845), naval commander in the War of 1812[https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/lots/mountmoriah_Naval.asp Mount Moriah Cemetery Naval Plot], National Cemetery Administration
• George Ewell (1850–1910), American professional baseball player.
• George N. Galloway (1841–1904), Medal of Honor recipient{{cite web |title=George Norton Galloway |date=26 May 2021 |url=https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/george-norton-galloway/}}
• John Galloway (d. 1904), Medal of Honor recipient[http://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/john-galloway/ John Galloway], FOMMCI
• John C. Grady (1847–1916), Pennsylvania State Senator for the 7th district from 1877 to 1903
• Bill Greenwood (1857–1902), baseball player[http://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/william-f-bill-greenwood-baseball-player/ William F (Bill) Greenwood], FOMMCI
• Daniel McBride Graham, abolitionist, inventor, first president of Hillsdale College
• A. O. Granger (Arthur Otis Granger; 1846–1914), American industrialist and soldier{{Citation|last=Deardorff|first=Nora R.|date=July 31, 1914|title=City of Philadelphia Death Certificate, Registered number:18600|place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|publisher=Bureau of Vital Statistics, Department of Health}}
• Robert Heller (born William Henry Palmer, 1826–1878), magician
• Robert Jordan (1826–1881), Medal of Honor recipient[https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/robert-jordan/ Robert Jordan], FOMMCI
• Joseph Killackey (1879–1946), Medal of Honor recipient[https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/joseph-killackey-1879-1946/ Joseph Killackey], FOMMCI
• Thomas Kittera (1789–1839), U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania
• John Laverty (1842–1903), double Medal of Honor recipient
• Nicholas Lear (1826–1902), Medal of Honor recipient{{cite web |title=Nicholas Lear |date=26 May 2021 |url=https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/nicholas-lear-died-1902/}}
• Art Loudell (1882–1961), professional baseball player
• Benjamin Loxley (1720–1801), Philadelphia master-builder and carpenter-architect
• Thomas G. Lyons (1838–1904), Medal of Honor recipient{{cite web |title=Thomas G. Lyons |date=26 May 2021 |url=https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/thomas-g-lyons/}}
• James Martin, II (1826–1895), Medal of Honor recipient[http://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/james-martin/martin/ Martin], FOMMCI
• Sylvester H. Martin (1841–1927), Medal of Honor recipient[https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/sylvester-hopkins-martin/ Sylvester Hopkins Martin], FOMMCI
• William McCandless (1834–1884), Civil War Union Army officer[https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/col-william-buck-mccandless-soldier-and-citizen-from-philadelphia/ Col William "Buck" McCandless], FOMMCI
• Matthew McClelland (1832–1883), Medal of Honor recipient
• John Edward McCullough (1832–1885), Shakespearean tragic actor{{cite web |title=John McCullough |date=26 May 2021 |url=https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/john-mccullough-1832-1885-actor/}}
• Samuel Miles (1739–1805), French & Indian War officer, Revolutionary War officer, Philadelphia civic activist, 1st Troop Captain (1786–1791), Mayor (1790–1791), and nation's first faithless elector, presidential election, 1796.
• John "Jocko" Milligan (1861–1923), baseball player[https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/john-jocko-milligan-baseball-player/ John "Jocko" Milligan], FOMMCI
• Moses Orr (1840–1897), Medal of Honor recipient[https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/moses-orr/ Moses Orr], FOMMCI
• Michael Owens (1837–1890), Medal of Honor recipient[https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/owens/ Michael Owens], FOMMCI
• Betsy Ross (1752–1836), upholsterer credited with making the first American flag
• Henry Shutes (1804–1889), Medal of Honor recipient[http://www.vconline.org.uk/henry-shutes/4594252350 Henry Shutes], vconline.org.uk
• Joseph Hill Sinex (1819–1892), Pennsylvania State Representative, Civil War Union Officer
• Samuel Sloan (1815–1884), architect
• John Smith (1826–1907), Medal of Honor recipient
• William Burns Smith, (1844–1917), Mayor of Philadelphia 1884–1887{{cite web |title=William Burns Smith |date=26 May 2021 |url=https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/william-burns-smith-1844-1917/}}
• John Murray Spear (1804–1887), Spiritualist clergyman
• Thomas H. Stockton (1808–1868) Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives
• August P. Teytand (1878–1956), Medal of Honor recipient[http://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/august-p-teytand/ August P Teytand], FOMMCI
• William Thompson (d. 1872), Medal of Honor recipient[https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/william-thompson/ William Thompson], FOMMCI
• Alexander H. Truett (1833–1898), Medal of Honor recipient{{cite web |title=Alexander H. Truett |url=http://vconline.org.uk/alexander-h-truett/4594395943}}
• John Whitehead (1948–2004), singer, songwriter[https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/john-whitehead-1948-2004-musician/ John Whitehead], FOMMCI
• John Williams (1828–1866), Medal of Honor recipient
• Francis A. Wilson (1840–1888), Medal of Honor recipient[https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/francis-a-wilson/ Francis A Wilson], FOMMCI
• Robert E. Winslow (1829–1893), Civil War Union Army officer[https://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/robert-emmet-winslow-1829-1893/ Robert Emmet Winslow], FOMMCI
• John Russell Young (1840–1899), journalist, diplomat, and Librarian of Congress

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• [https://vimeo.com/146389497 Documentary Short Film: Mount Moriah]
• [http://friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/ Friends of Mount Moriah Cemetery]
• {{HABS |survey=PA-1634 |id=pa1010 |title=Mount Moriah Cemetery Gatehouse, 6299 Kingsessing Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA |photos=4 |cap=1}}
• Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) documentation, filed under 6201 Kingsessing Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA:
• {{HALS |survey=PA-4-A |id=pa4016 |title=Mount Moriah Cemetery, Mt. Moriah Soldiers Lot |photos=4 |cap=1 |link=no}}
• {{HALS |survey=PA-4-B |id=pa4017 |title=Mount Moriah Cemetery, Mt. Moriah Naval Lot |photos=4 |cap=2 |link=no}}
• [http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/4001762/PHILADELPHIA%20(MOUNT%20MORIAH)%20CEMETERY Commonwealth War Graves Commission: Philadelphia (Mount Moriah) Cemetery]

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