This is the webpage where you will learn about the Volunteer Refreshment Saloons that citizens opened during the Civil War to feed and care for Union Soldiers traveling through Philadelphia. From these beginnings, a Soldiers’ Home was established to care for disabled war veterans. And when these unfortunate men died, the Saloons and Home buried them at Mount Moriah and Lafayette cemeteries. Later, the Home closed and turned their attention to the care and education of the veterans’ orphaned children. In 1883, a monument was erected in the Mount Moriah cemetery to watch over the veteran graves. And in 1889, burial lots at Mount Moriah were entrusted to the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. I will share my research and information to honor these heroes and to help their descendants learn about them.
Here are the men buried in the Cooper Shop – Soldiers’ Home Burial Lots:
