Lion's|Sam Fathers' Gravesite in "Lion" (Location)

The "holly knoll" is an elevated piece of land crowned by "four pale trunks" of holly trees that mark the corners of the spot where the dog Lion was buried under a "wooden cross with Old Ben's dried mutilated paw nailed to it" (199). Its slight elevation was not enough to keep "the spring flood water" from the river from washing away all traces of the grave (199). (A slightly different but much more profoundly situated version of this grave site occurs in the last section of "The Bear" in Go Down, Moses).