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Lebanon Cemetery was chartered on January 24, 1849<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scharf |first1=John Thomas |title=History of Philadelphia, 1609–1884 |date=1884 |publisher=L.H. Everts & Co. |location=Philadelphia |page=2360 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8uYkAAAAYAAJ&q=moriah |access-date=23 August 2019}}</ref> by [[Jacob C. White]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Eden Stories |url=https://www.edencemetery.org/news |website=www.edencemetery.org |access-date=20 July 2019}}</ref> on the Passyunk Road near present-day Nineteenth Street and Snyder Avenue in [[South Philadelphia]].{{sfn|Keels|2003|p=84}} It was a [[nonsectarian]] cemetery designated for African Americans since they were excluded from most of the new [[rural cemeteries]].{{sfn|Keels|2003|p=79}} | Lebanon Cemetery was chartered on January 24, 1849<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scharf |first1=John Thomas |title=History of Philadelphia, 1609–1884 |date=1884 |publisher=L.H. Everts & Co. |location=Philadelphia |page=2360 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8uYkAAAAYAAJ&q=moriah |access-date=23 August 2019}}</ref> by [[Jacob C. White]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Eden Stories |url=https://www.edencemetery.org/news |website=www.edencemetery.org |access-date=20 July 2019}}</ref> on the Passyunk Road near present-day Nineteenth Street and Snyder Avenue in [[South Philadelphia]].{{sfn|Keels|2003|p=84}} It was a [[nonsectarian]] cemetery designated for African Americans since they were excluded from most of the new [[rural cemeteries]].{{sfn|Keels|2003|p=79}} | ||
The cemetery was a part of the [[United States National Cemetery System]] during the | The cemetery was a part of the [[United States National Cemetery System]] during the American Civil War with a leased lot within the cemetery for soldiers that died in nearby hospitals.<ref name=Holt/> 339 African-American veterans<ref>{{cite book |title=Message of the President of the United States and Accompanying, to the Two Houses of Congress |date=1868 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington |page=931 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xkVfU4VjtD0C&pg=PA931 |access-date=10 January 2022}}</ref> of the [[U.S. Civil War]] were buried in a reserved section of Lebanon Cemetery<ref name=McLeary>{{cite web |last1=McLeary |first1=Erin |title=The Curious Case Of Body Snatching at Lebanon Cemetery |url=https://hiddencityphila.org/2015/04/the-curious-case-of-body-snatching-at-lebanon-cemetery/ |website=www.hiddencityphila.org |date=13 April 2015 |access-date=20 July 2019}}</ref> and were reinterred to the [[Philadelphia National Cemetery]] in 1885.<ref name=Holt>{{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.</ref> | ||
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 (Philadelphia)|Mount Moriah Cemetery]] in Philadelphia. After his death in 1875, cemetery authorities refused to bury him based on his race. A lawsuit was filed against the Mount Moriah Cemetery Association and in 1876 the [[Pennsylvania Supreme Court]] ruled that Jones had the right to be buried in the cemetery.<ref>{{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}}</ref> During the court case, Jones' body was stored at a burial vault at Lebanon Cemetery. His family had planned to bury him at Lebanon Cemetery but he may have been buried at the [[Church of St. James the Less, Philadelphia|Church of St. James the Less]] in Philadelphia instead.<ref>{{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}}</ref> | 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 (Philadelphia)|Mount Moriah Cemetery]] in Philadelphia. After his death in 1875, cemetery authorities refused to bury him based on his race. A lawsuit was filed against the Mount Moriah Cemetery Association and in 1876 the [[Pennsylvania Supreme Court]] ruled that Jones had the right to be buried in the cemetery.<ref>{{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}}</ref> During the court case, Jones' body was stored at a burial vault at Lebanon Cemetery. His family had planned to bury him at Lebanon Cemetery but he may have been buried at the [[Church of St. James the Less, Philadelphia|Church of St. James the Less]] in Philadelphia instead.<ref>{{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}}</ref> | ||