Superintendent of Zion’s Hill Cemetery finds cattle on the grounds

03/26/1861 |

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The superintendent of Zion’s Hill Cemetery came across some cattle on the grounds of the cemetery and decided to “drive them to pound.”

The superintendent decided to do this because the cattle were “frequent visitors” to the cemetery.
Along the way, the superintendent encountered the “owner of the beasts.”
The owner threatened the superintendent: “if he pounded them cattle he’d get pounding himself.”
The owner took custody of the cattle and drove them home.

“The Superintendent is now ‘reading up’ on the ‘Act relating to pounding of neat cattle,’ etc.”

“Driving cattle to pound” today would mean driving them to auction for sale. Here it meant driving them to a “depot for stray animals.”

Unattributed. “The superintendent of Zion’s Hill Cemetery,” Hartford Daily Courant, March 27, 1861, page 2.

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