STANTON, Del. (AP) — A mystery involving a Delaware pet cemetery has now been solved.
A graveyard the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals hoped to sell for nearly $10 million contains about 1,600 buried animals and, as it turns out, one human.
Some had said it was “absurd” to think sculptor Maurine Ligon was buried next to her dog. But some remembered her ashes being scattered there in 1980. When brush was removed, they found the headstone of “Ms. Ligon” and her pet collie, “Lady.”
State law allows the sale of land including buried pets, but not buried people, unless their remains will be forever protected. That’s difficult with scattered ashes.
The News Journal of Wilmington reports that the group’s director Tiffany Briddell promised to protect Ms. Ligon’s burial site, potentially complicating a sale.
