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The Mysterious Woman Buried Alone at the Pet Cemetery

Photograph taken at Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in Hartsdale, NY, on October 17, 2012 by Anthony22 at English Wikipedia
Photograph taken at Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in Hartsdale, NY, on October 17, 2012 by Anthony22 at English Wikipedia

The New York Times published a story on January 7, 2024 about a woman whose cremated remains were buried at the Hartsdale Pet Cemetery  in New York. She died without family and all her executor and lawyer knew was that her instructions upon her death were to be buried at the pet cemetery. But no one seemed to know why. Continue reading The Mysterious Woman Buried Alone at the Pet Cemetery

The Stories Behind the Stones

Trouble - Our Faithful and Effectionate Companion. (photo of pet cemetery)
Trouble – Our Faithful and Effectionate Companion. (February 2018)

For the first twenty-four years of my life, I lived less than two miles from the one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the United States. During those years, I never visited it, although I would occasionally hear stories about it. People would say that J. Edgar Hoover’s dogs were buried there as well as the dog “Petey” from the Our Gang movies.
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