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Posted by tickintimebomb on 08-11-2009 02:51 AM:

Coon Dog Cemetery Pics

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Posted by tickintimebomb on 08-11-2009 02:52 AM:

Posted by heckler on 08-11-2009 02:58 AM:

I hunted with Spark's Bo

Posted by Buckshot on 08-11-2009 03:01 AM:

Did you just recently visit?

Reason I ask is because the Coon Dog Cemetery Labor Day Celebration is around the corner........good fellowship, good music, and dang goot eating.

Posted by tickintimebomb on 08-11-2009 03:02 AM:

No I just got around to postin those up. It was earlier this year before I moved north. I sure dont miss the heat of the south but you can guarentee I will be comeing south for the winter. HA HA

More pics to come soon.

Posted by Blue Style on 08-11-2009 03:12 AM:

I would love to visit there sometime...real cool pics luke...

Posted by tickintimebomb on 08-11-2009 03:18 AM:

I have a lot more pics on the photobucket site. If anyone else is interested you can search for tickintimebomb03 for the rest of my pics.

Thanks Matt it was one of those things that I had to go and see before I left the south. It really is a cool place to visit.

It is located on coon dog cemetery road. It was a pain to find but really peaceful out there.

Posted by tickintimebomb on 08-11-2009 03:24 AM:

Posted by tickintimebomb on 08-11-2009 04:49 PM:

Hope yall enjoy

Posted by s/s on 08-11-2009 04:54 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Buckshot
Did you just recently visit?

Reason I ask is because the Coon Dog Cemetery Labor Day Celebration is around the corner........good fellowship, good music, and dang goot eating.

Where is the cemetery? I want to put this on our to do list while traveling. I know we will not be in the south on Labor Day, but, we would really like to go another time.

Thanks,
Sabrina Smith
Critter Creek Redbones
Brighton, Tennessee

Posted by tickintimebomb on 08-11-2009 05:03 PM:

It is in northern alabama there is a full thread on coondawgs.com on it.

Coon Dog Cemetery Labor Day Celebration

Each Labor Day, the Tennessee Valley Coon Hunter’s Association host a celebration at the cemetery. Entertainment includes music, dancing, food and a liar's contest. Time: 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Official Coon Dog T-shirts and camouflage caps available to purchase.

Coon Dog Cemetery Location

You can find the Coon Dog Cemetery 7 miles west of Tuscumbia on U.S. Hwy 72. Turn left on Alabama Hwy 247, and travel approximately 12 miles. Then turn right, and follow the signs. For more information and directions contact the Colbert County Tourism and Convention Bureau:

1-800-344-0783; (256) 383-0783 or visit www.colbertcountytourism.org

If you have gps type in coon dog cemetery road thats how I found it. I got lost and was on the other side of tuscumbia.

Posted by tickintimebomb on 08-11-2009 05:08 PM:

COON DOG EULOGY

Eulogy written by William W. Ramsey
Introduction by Bradley W. Ramsey

A group of solemn men, dressed in black mourning coats and hip boots, wearing carbide lamps on their heads stood beside a mound of soil and a freshly dug hole. A hunting horn sounded and the bay of hounds filled the air. Four similarly dressed men walked slowly toward the gathered crowd, a small wooden box carried between them

When the box was lowered into the ground one of the men spoke the following.

Let not your hearts be troubled,
for in his master’s swamp are many den trees.
If it were not so, I would have told you.
He has gone to prepare a place for you
and where he has gone Ole Red will go also.
Dogs, they say, do not have souls.
They only have hide and bones.
But I believe there is a coon dog heaven
and Red is gone were the good coon dogs go.
Anybody that coon hunts has to believe in God.
If you have known the music of coon hounds on a trail
and heard the excitement in their voices when they strike,
and seen their eagerness and determination when they tree,
if you have seen their courage and bravery
in a tough fight with an old boar coon,
if you have heard their anguished cries and howls,
if you have seen the ugly gashes
and bleeding wounds
and witnessed their resolve to never quit,
you know there has to be a God to make an animal like that.
And a God that that would make a coon dog
won’t forget him when he is gone.
There is a coon dog heaven and Ole Red is there.
And every night he runs
and the den trees are there in the old swamp
and the old hunter’s moon hangs low in the west
and the coons don’t go up no slick barked trees
and the carbide don’t run out
and there ain’t no bull nettle and saw briars
and old master always knocks the coon out
and lets Ole Red grab him and give him a good shake;
and then he gets a pat on the head
and climbs back into the kennel in the back of the pick-up truck
and goes home and sleeps all day.
‘Cause he knows in coon dog heaven he can hunt again
when the sun goes down and the tree frogs holler.
May the bones of Ole Red rest in peace,
through the mercy of God
and may the coon hunters light perpetually shine upon him.

AMEN

Posted by Buckshot on 08-11-2009 05:13 PM:

He is the site. www.coondogcemetery.com

That is Key Underwood on the homepage who started the cemetery.

Posted by tickintimebomb on 08-11-2009 05:17 PM:

Thanks Buckshot I was just lookin for it on there.

Posted by tickintimebomb on 08-12-2009 03:09 AM:

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Posted by tickintimebomb on 08-15-2009 08:31 AM:

It sure is a wonderful place to visit.

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