Established by the Silver Bow County Masons in 1877, Mount Moriah Cemetery is one of three cemeteries located on Montana Street in Butte, Silver Bow County. 58 acres in size, this historic cemetery is very well maintained and has approximately 14,430 known interments, including two famous interments, those of U.S. Congressmen Albert James Campbell and Lee Theophilus Mantle.
Mount Moriah Cemetery has towering pine trees throughout and along the roadways and front entrance. The first known interment is Bettie Fant Boyce, born in Kentucky on March 15, 1846, who passed away September 29, 1877 at the age of 31 years.
Mount Moriah Cemetery is rich is history, with many broken columns, towering family plot markers, and an outside mausoleum towards the back of the cemetery. There was one death mask that we located, that of Gen. Charles S. Warren, and interestingly the grave of J. Frank Beck with a sculpture of his faithful dog.
Beginning in the 1970s, the cemetery began to be visited by a man in a wheelchair - a man who, it transpires, was never really there, though many witnesses state that they have seen him...
Within the cemetery are several tall obelisks one of which is the family name Moses. This obelisk has interesting texture and is approximately 20 feet tall.
Though the Moses obelisk is not inscribed this is a family plot with several small headstones of the Moses family. Though it is unclear when this obelisk was placed there are three small grave markers in a row to the right of the obelisk all of which are similar in color and texture.
The first is unidentified, then David Moses, birth unknown and died January 15, 1895. He was one of the fireman killed at the explosion of the Kenyon-Connell Warehouse in which 57 people, including 13 firemen and a policeman and three fire department horses were killed.
A son Arthur Moses born April 19, 1890 and died February 27, 1920, he was 29 years of age.