While I recover from a slight case of food poisoning, (Never order a sandwich with sprouts in an unfamiliar restaurant!), I thought you might enjoy this little collection of tombstone humor. 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... Only The Good Die Young..
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In a London , England cemetery:
Here lies Ann Mann, Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann. Dec. 8, 1767
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In a Ribbesford, England , cemetery:
Anna Wallace
The children of Israel wanted bread, And The Lord sent them manna. Clark Wallace Wanted a wife, And the Devil sent him Anna.
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In a Ruidoso, New Mexico , cemetery:
Here lies Johnny Yeast.... Pardon him
For not rising..
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In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania , cemetery:
Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake.
Stepped on the gas instead of the brake.
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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.
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A lawyer's epitaph in England :
Sir John Strange.
Here lies an honest lawyer,
And that is Strange.
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John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England , cemetery Passerby, if cash thou art in want of any,
Dig 6 feet deep and thou wilt find a Penny.
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In a cemetery in Hartscombe , England :
On the 22nd of June, Jonathan Fiddle went
Out of tune.
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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.
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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.. ==============================
In a cemetery in England : Remember man, as you walk by, As you are now, so once was I As I am now, so shall you be.. Remember this and follow me. To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone: To follow you I'll not consent. Until I know which way you went. |
