Monday, July 04, 2005

Interesting True Tombstones

* Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York: Born 1903-Died 1942. Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down. It was.

* In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery: Here lies an Atheist - All dressed up And no place to go.

* On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia: Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102. The Good Die Young.

* In a London, England cemetery: Here lies Ann Mann, Who lived an old maid But died an old Mann. Dec. 8, 1767.

* In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery: Anna Wallace: The children of Israel wanted bread, And the Lord sent them manna. Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife, And the Devil sent him Anna.

* In a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery: Here lies Johnny Yeast.. Pardon me For not rising.

* In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania, cemetery: Here lies the bodyof Jonathan Blake. Stepped on the gas Instead of the brake.

* In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery: Here lays The Kid. We planted him raw. He was quick on the trigger But slow on the draw.

* A lawyer's epitaph in England: Sir John Strange. Here lies an honest lawyer, And that is Strange.

* John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery:
Reader, if cash thou art
In want of any,
Dig 6 feet deep;
And thou wilt find a Penny.

* In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England: On the 22nd of June, Jonathan Fiddle Went out of tune.

* Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont: Here lies the body of our Anna - Done to death by a banana. It wasn't the fruit that laid her low, But the skin of the thing that made her go.

* On a grave from the 1880s in Nantucket, Massachusetts:
Under the sod and under the trees,
Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
He is not here, there's only the pod.
Pease shelled out and went to God.

* To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone: To follow you I'll not consent Until I know which way you went.

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