Guarding Her Grave This is the famous cast iron dog in Hollywood Cemetery-Richmond, Virginia. Little Florence Bree's brother begged his father for this dog, which used to stand outside a merchant's shop in Richmond. The father eventually bought the dog for him and when his little sister Florence died of scarlet fever the dog was placed at her grave. The dog not only watches over Florence but also was put there to save it from being melted down for confederate bullets during the Civil War. Fo...