Development of Funeral Transportation

Question 1

French etymology of Hearse

Answer 1

Herse

Question 2

Latin etymology of the word Hearse

Answer 2

Hirpex

Question 3

Rake or Harrow

Answer 3

Hirpex

Question 4

Funeralis

Answer 4

Torchlight procession

Question 5

Hand stretcher on which uncoffined remains were placed to lie in state or waked and then utilized to transport the remains to the grave

Answer 5

Bier

Question 6

These would be responsible for carrying the bier to the grave

Answer 6

Bearers and under bearers

Question 7

This required the change from carrying the casket on foot to needing a horse drawn carts

Answer 7

The change from intramural burial to extramural burial

Question 8

This company featured a funeral car at the New Orleans Cotton Exposition in 1884, with five urns and gilded columns

Answer 8

James Cunningham & Son Co

Question 9

Introduced the 8 poster funeral car, marking the end of the ornamental deck hearse

Answer 9

Hudson Sampson

Question 10

Exhibited at the Chicago’s World Fair in 1893 the most elaborate and outstanding funeral car of the 19th century

Answer 10

Crane, Breed, and Co

Question 11

Developed a funeral car that weighed 2400 pounds

Answer 11

Crane, Breed, and Co

Question 12

Developed a funeral car that was referred to as a church on wheels

Answer 12

Crane, Breed, and Co

Question 13

The pre-Civil War hearse was

Answer 13

simple, yet ornate

Question 14

The post-Civil War funeral car was

Answer 14

Ornate, huge, and drawn by 6-8 horses

Question 15

Describe the post Civil War funeral car

Answer 15

Full plate glass sides
Scroll work along the top
Metal columns
Flower urns
plumes

Question 16

Why were post Civil war funeral cars referred to as such?

Answer 16

Because of their massive size

Question 17

Undertakers seemed to buy new funeral cars in

Answer 17

15 year cycles

Question 18

The first electric street railway appears in Baltimore in

Answer 18

1885

Question 19

Most of these were full size trolley cars with seating for pall bearers, family, minister, undertaker, etc

Answer 19

Funeral Trolley Car

Question 20

Why did the funeral trolley lose popularity?

Answer 20

Excessive speed and it jolted the mourners

Question 21

The first motorized hearses appeared to be old horse drawn funeral cars mounted on these

Answer 21

lengthened passenger cars and truck chassis

Question 22

Invented a combined hearse-passenger vehicle, none of which were ever sold

Answer 22

Fred Hulberg

Question 23

Manufactured and sold the first auto hearse designed as a hearse and not a conversion

Answer 23

Crane, Breed, and Co

Question 24

Produced in 1909 by bother Crane, Breed, and Co and Cunningham Motor Ambulance Co

Answer 24

Ambulance

Question 25

Name given to the first motorized hearses, usually converted horse drawn carriages, never used to transport a body

Answer 25

Undertaker’s buggy

Question 26

7 windows with no landau bar

Reactionary in that funeral directors and the public were tired of the ornate, gaudy, pre WWI hearses

Answer 26

Limousine

Question 27

Conservative with longer, smoother lines, and usually black in coor

Answer 27

Limousine

Question 28

This was first patented in 1926

Answer 28

The first side loader hearse

Question 29

In the 19th century, these were black with fine lines of silver or gold

Answer 29

Adult Hearses

Question 30

In the 19th century, these were down scale in size and white

Answer 30

Children’s Hearses

Question 31

What reasons did Timber Awl give for believing in the failure of the Hearse

Answer 31

Expensive
No faster
Upkeep and cost of drivers
Undertakers would have to cut costs on caskets
Idea of rushing to the grave
Old people would not take to it