Volunteers worked to breathe new life into the historic Mount Moriah cemetery on Sunday with the goal of cleaning the place up and washing away the dark recent past.
The cemetery, which sits between the edge of Philadelphia and Yeadon in Delaware County, is the site of mausoleums and crypts dating back to the 1850s.
However, some of those historic resting places have been burglarized in recent years. According to Delaware County investigators, 34-year-old Jonathan Gerlach burglarized or desecrated 26 mausoleums and underground burial sites at Mount Moriah Cemetery…