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Hearse House & Caretakers' Museum depicts the diversity of burial and gravemarking traditions in the Cemetery, including the work of William Henry Jefferson, Lynchburg's first African-American tombstone carver (fl. 1840-1865). He carved half of all the Cemetery's antebellum gravestones for enslaved and free blacks. The elegant horse-drawn hearse on display was occasionally rented by local black undertakers from the white Diuguid Funeral Home. The Thornhill wagon served as a more modest hearse in many funerals, in addition to transporting groundskeeping materials and equipment throughout the Cemetery.