Meet the man who has buried 10,000 people at Mount Auburn Cemetery
Bill Shea has been digging graves for 40 years.
Bill Shea has been digging graves for 40 years.
Shea, the director of operations at the historic Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, estimates he’s buried 10,000 people, reports The Boston Globe.
“The general public looks at us with this stigma of being ghoulish and old, broken-down has-beens,’’ Shea, 63, told the Globe. “But this job has affected my life in a lot of very good ways. I enjoy helping the families left behind.’’
The 63-year-old Shea and his crew often use a backhoe, but sometimes dig graves by hand. It can take two people five hours to dig a grave, using wall supports to prevent collapse and a jackhammer when the soil is too hard.
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