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Margaret Adams Coll.

David Williams’s second motor hearse. His house is in the back— ' ground. Occasionally, the front room of his home was used for wakes

and funerals.

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David Williams’s first motor hearse, originally owned lists: a p 3‘ a.” I i‘ .

by Hudson Moreshead, undertaker, of West Devon.

David Williams, undertaker, is standing beside the 1932 , hearse. Summerside Journal, December 12, I 939

they used a black sleigh hearse hauled by two black horses draped with Manta (a type of blanket or cloth with tassels hanging down the sides). In the summertime a wagon hearse was used, until the roads were paved and motor vehicle hearses were

manufactured.

In the wintertime when David got a call he would load a wood sleigh with a casket and his equipment and go to the homes in all kinds of weather. If it was snowing heavily and it was hard to see the road, he used his pair of wire cutters to cut the fences and go through the fields. On one occasion in a bad snowstorm, he put the reins over the front of the sleigh, and the horse knew the way home. Caskets re—

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