The bodies were disinterred in 1947, transported to the Evergreen Memorial Park (now Rosedale Cemetery) in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, and reinterred in a mass grave.

The city wanted to close the cemetery as early as the 1920s but the Great Depression and World War II delayed the process.

[8] The city contracted with Thomas A. Morris to relocate the remains to 40 acres[9] at Evergreen Memorial Park in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.

Morris received full title to the cemetery property, assessed at $166,000, and immediately sold it back to the city for use as a playground for the price of $200,000.

[10] Further examination of the Evergreen Memorial Park site revealed that Morris had not honored the agreement but instead the bodies were reinterred in wooden boxes stacked in 32[8] mass grave trenches[2] with no markers, roads, or statue of Lafayette.