Marshall's brother Alexander had a dog he set great store by, and when it died the man actilly wanted to have it buried in the graveyard, 'along with the other Christians,' he said.

Course, he wasn't allowed to; so he buried it just outside the graveyard fence, and never darkened the church door again.

But Sundays he'd drive his family to church and sit by that dog's grave and read his Bible all the time service was going on.

They say when he was dying he asked his wife to bury him beside the dog; she was a meek little soul but she fired up at THAT.

She said SHE wasn't going to be buried beside no dog, and if he'd rather have his last resting place beside the dog than beside her, jest to say so.