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For other uses of the term, see Gravedigger (disambiguation) . A gravedigger is a Cemetery worker responsible for digging Graves used in the process of Burial . NOTABLE GRAVEDIGGERS Blues Musician James "Sonny Ford" Thomas worked as a gravedigger during his youth in Mississippi . Blues musician John Jackson worked as a gravedigger in Fairfax County, Virginia . Members of the Pappenheimer Family worked as gravediggers and emptiers of privies, amongst other menial jobs. They were prosecuted and tortured for allegedly committing acts of Witchcraft and murder in Bavaria during a period of Hysteria Over Witchcraft . Eventually they were Executed By Burning . British author Sid Smith was briefly employed as a gravedigger. GRAVEDIGGERS IN LITERATURE Because of their association with the subject of 's novels was titled ''First Gravedigger'' as an allusion to this scene. Gravedigging has also been used as a theme in detective and crime fiction. Gravedigger Jones is one of two black detectives featured in the "Harlem cycle" of novels by Chester Himes . His partner in the novels is Coffin Ed Johnson and the pair are often involved in violent confrontations. The timbre of these novels is frequently mordant, and a funeral director is a recurring character. IN JAPAN In Japan , gravedigging was one of the "unclean" professions historically alloted to the Burakumin class. Indeed there is a cross-cultural trend to pigeonhole gravedigging as a dead end career performed by people who occupy the margins of society. NOTES