She chose six of the family's workmen, laborers,gardeners and stablemen to carry her coffin.
VOA : special.2010.07.18
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Over the years, Dickinson had hired an ethnically diverse group of servants: African American gardeners, Yankee seamstresses, Native American laborers, stablemen from England, and maids from Ireland.
VOA : standard.2010.06.22
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while her maids and stablemen, gardeners and laundry workers were forgotten.