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After she had put the roses on the grave, Alda Sizemore commenced the story of how Old Red the coon dog got run over by a train. "It was just awful," she sighed, and then she said, "but let me go get my husband. He tells it so much better, and he was there, after...
...Train killed Old Red," Ross Sizemore said. On Sunday, Nov. 18, 1974, he had been keen to go coon hunting--"wanted to go so bad I couldn't stand it" was the way he put it--but there was something disrespectful about hunting on Sunday so he made himself wait until after midnight. At 3 a.m. Sizemore and Old Red were on a train trestle when a southbound freight roared onto the bridge...
...Sizemores, there was no question where Old Red's remains should rest: they put him in a sack and bore him to the Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard, where the rich totemic significance of the breed has been celebrated since Sept. 4, 1937, the day Troop, a coon dog of towering integrity, breathed his last. Key Underwood, who owned Troop and loved him like a son, put the dog in a 6-ft.-long cotton-picker's sack and brought him out here to the piney woods in the northwestern corner of Alabama and buried him in a hole...
...asking if he was the Key Underwood, he would say, "What's left of him." Then they would ask him about Troop, and he would say, "Troop was just as humble as he could be. I never heard him growl at another dog. But when it come to Mr. Coon, that was something else. He'd walk around a coon until he saw an opening, and he'd move in there and grab him on those foreshoulders, and you could hear the bones pop. That was some...
...deceased. A lot of Old Blues went down into the ground here, as well as a lot of Old Reds. The headstone for Blue Kate said STRUCK BY CAR , WHILE RUNNING A RACCOON. IN SIX YEARS OF OWNERSHIP TREED MORE THAN 200. The stone for Rusty said A COON DOG INDEED with the qualifier underscored twice...