FREMONT — Officials are trying to find a way to preserve the town's old horse-drawn hearse that made national headlines in 1961 when it was used to carry the body of a Fremont man who refused to ...

Learn more. Vermont town is offering a reminder of a lost tradition both grim and stately: the New England town hearse. Horse-drawn hearses, kept in “hearse houses” in town cemeteries and used ...

Seven hundred times over the past 20 years, Lorraine Melgosa has trailered an 1867 horse-drawn hearse and a gleaming black Percheron from her ranch in Manzanola to help bury the dead in cemeteries ...

A vintage trade catalog illustrates horse-drawn hearses from long ago, providing a glimpse at funeral processions of the past Alexia MacClain The Trade Literature Collection gives us a small ...

Early horse-drawn hearses were carriages that often featured fully functional landau bars. Before World War II, American automobile hearses borrowed the landau bar flourish as an homage and an ...

Friday morning, Baasch kept his promise as he carried Neighbors' casket to Grand Island's Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in an antique, horse-drawn hearse that Neighbors helped restore.

Later this month, a riderless horse is expected to trail a hearse in a small number of eligible funerals. In the fall, the Army expects a horse with a rider to lead a hearse at all ceremonies that ...

A horse-drawn hearse delivered children’s shoes to the Israeli, British and US embassies and to the Irish European Union HQ today as protesters called for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza. Hundreds ...

If you’ve ever been to a funeral (or behind the procession of one on the road), you’ve probably seen a hearse—and perhaps you ...