If the grave is in a cemetery on the property of a church or other religious organization (part of, or called, a churchyard), gravediggers may be members of the decedent's family or volunteer See more

One of Barbara Paul's novels was titled First Gravedigger as an allusion to this scene.
Gravedigging has been used as a theme in detective and crime fiction. Gravedigger Jones is one of two black detectives featured in the … See more

• Chevra kadisha – (Jewish grave diggers)
• Grave robbery See more

Fossor (Latin fossorius, from the verb fodere 'to dig') is a term described in Chambers' dictionary as archaic, but can conveniently be revived to describe grave diggers in the Roman See more

• Abraham Lincoln, later President of the United States, worked as a sexton in a churchyard in Spencer County, Indiana,
• Blues musician James "Sonny Ford" Thomas worked as a gravedigger during his youth in Mississippi. See more

In 1979, in what came to be called the Winter of Discontent, British gravediggers and crematorium workers in Liverpool and Manchester, took industrial action for the first time. At a January strike committee meeting in the Liverpool, local convener for the See more