text:  By the time the National Park Service took control of Mammoth Cave in 1941, the fourth generation of Bransford guides were giving tours. During the transition, residents had to leave their homes. Under new cave operations, there were to be no more black guides, ending over a century of Bransford's working and living at Mammoth Cave. That is, until Jerry came back to share his family's ties to the cave system and to see where some of them were laid to rest.