Allegan County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Bellingham, Family Dog-Turk 
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Cemetery:           Woodside Cemetery
Name:               Family Dog-Turk Bellingham

Date Of Photograph: August 25, 2011
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Dog monument--Turk-In a letter dated Apr 20, 1884, written by Orpha Bellingham
(dau/o Wm Bellingham)  she mentions the dog "Turk" as follows:  "I must tell 
you poor old "Turk" is gone.  He got so stiff and lame, one of his toe nails 
got torn out by a pig two years ago, at last came to an awful sore so he would 
not step on it and so we thought it best to have him put out of his misery, 
but Oh, you don't know how I miss him, it seems as though an old friend has 
gone."  Note:  The Dog Turk lived 6 years after the death of Wm Bellingham.  
Gladys Bliss Doster (gr grndau/o Wm A. Bellingham, Sr.)--noted that "Turk, 
guards the graves at Woodside Cem and had saved the family from a house fire." 

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