Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1877 — An Affectionate Pig. [ARTICLE]

An Affectionate Pig.

The hog is not usually classed among the affectionate animals. There is one instance of his display of this quality, however, to record in his behalf. Henry Turner, aged 9, died in Maysville, Ky., and was buried at Orangeburg, some seven miles distant. When the funeral procession left Maysville, a small hog, which the child had fed and petted, got behind the hearse, and, despite repeated efforts to drive it back, followed the procession all the way to the buryingground. There it attempted to enter the ground, but a fence prevented it doing so.