When Mrs. Mary A. Bell’s Skye terrier died in 1888, she purchased a plot at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx and buried her beloved Cozey Bell among the human graves.
Posts Tagged ‘Woodlawn Cemetery’
1888: Cozey Bell, the Skye Terrier Almost Buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx
Posted: 11th September 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: Absalom Peters, Daniel Tier, Gilbert Valentine, Mary A. Bell, New York City History, William A. Booth, Woodlawn Cemetery
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1895: Sport Hopper, the Fox Terrier That Left a Legacy for New York Pets
Posted: 10th January 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails, Hartsdale Pet CemeteryTags: Dog Tails, Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, Ida Mosher Hopper, New York History, Samuel Johnson, William DeWolf Hopper, Woodlawn Cemetery
I think it was Sport Hopper, the nine-month-old fox terrier of the Hopper household on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, whose much-publicized burial paved the way for the first pet cemetery in the United States.
