On the edge of Philadelphia, Mount Moriah cemetery sprawls over 380 acres, spreading into Delaware County and sheltering 80,000 thousand graves. But when Paulette Rhone goes there to visit her husband ...

On one recent Sunday afternoon, Mount Moriah Cemetery in Southwest Philadelphia was almost pastoral. Tidy rows of white stones, marking the graves of several hundred Civil War soldiers, gleamed in the ...

For years, Mt. Moriah Cemetery was abandoned. Trees, vines and bushes grew over the graves. The brush hid obelisks from view and roots cracked monuments' stone. Approximately 200 acres - reclaimed by ...

SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA - April 14, 2009- Joe Lauber and his daughter Joanne return to the scene of what they consider a crime; The poor upkeep at Mt. Moriah, one of the area's most historic cemeteries ...

Wanda Grant is one of those people. Grant comes to Mount Moriah often. It is the only way she feels close to the son she lost in 2002. On Monday, what would have been her son Rasheen's 34th birthday, ...

The cemetery dates back to the 19th century. Unlike more exclusive graveyards, such as The Woodlands two miles to its northeast, Mount Moriah welcomed African-Americans, Jews, and people of modest ...