The dog on the headstone

Michigan · United States · Cemetery

In 1938 he crossed the road in front of his house to fetch his mother's post. His dog was waiting for him on the other side.

In 1938 a small boy at Plainwell, Michigan crossed the road in front of his home to collect the post for his mother.

His dog was waiting for him on the far side.

A car came and he was killed instantly.

He is buried at Hillside Cemetery, and his headstone is carved in the shape of a dog, the one that was waiting.

That stone is the reason this entry exists and it does not need anything adding to it. A family who had lost a child chose to put on his grave the last thing he was walking towards.

No name is set down here. It is on the stone, and Plainwell is a small town.

What is reported at the cemetery follows from it, and the grave is visited by people who never knew him.

It is a public burial ground.

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The dog on the headstone is in Michigan, United States.