Cherokee, Alabama: Coon Dog Cemetery

Key Underwood buried his coon dog "Old Troop" here, in a hunting camp in the woods, on Sep. 4, 1937. Since then the graveyard procession of dead coon dogs, many with fancy tombstones, hasn't stopped.

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Monument of two dogs looking upward, grasping a tree trunk, at the entrance to the Coon Dog Cemetery.

Coon Dog Cemetery

Since 1937 this formal cemetery, officially named the Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard, has held the remains of nearly 200 true-blue coon hunting dogs, marked by a wide assortment of professionally-carved marble headstones, homemade wooden signs, locally-found boulders, and many others. The nearly 20-foot central obelisk is a concrete tree with a pair of coon dogs with their front paws on on the trunk.

Parking is easy, and there is a covered pavilion, picnic benches, and an outhouse (for ladies, the sign says). I guess guys just do it like dogs, on the trees.

[Felder Rushing, 04/30/2006]

Coon Dog cemetery sign.

Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard

This is a cemetery that is restricted to coon hounds. There are many gravestones and several intricately carved sculptures of coon dogs treeing coons.

[David Smith, 12/03/1998]

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Coon Dog Cemetery

Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Cemetery

Address:: 4945 Coon Dog Cemetery Rd, Cherokee, AL
Directions:: Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Cemetery. Seven miles west of Tuscumbia on US Hwy 72. Turn left (south) on Hwy 247, go 12 miles, turn right, and follow the signs.
Phone:: 256-383-0783
RA Rates:: Worth a Detour