Alabama’s Coon Dog Cemetery Celebrates 80 Years This Labor Day Weekend

By Anne Kristoff

Franky Hatton is schooling me on the ins and outs of raccoon hunting. We met in early spring at the Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard, better known as the Coon Dog Cemetery. Hatton is one of its caretakers, as well as a board member of the Friends of the Coon Dog Cemetery and coon-hunting enthusiast.

Over the course of the afternoon, he will tell me all about headlamps, snake pants, tracking devices, squaller calls, the six different types of coon dogs, siring and lineage, and the process of how they come up with all these funny names. He’ll also tell me why this place in Colbert County in northwest Alabama is so special that it has attracted visitors from across the country and as far away as Sheffield, England.

“It’s the only cemetery of its kind in the world,” he said.

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