Some fascinating things on old tombstones!

Some fascinating things on old 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.
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In a Thurmont, Maryland , cemetery:
Here lies an Atheist, all dressed up and no place to go.
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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 me for not rising.
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> In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania , cemetery:
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> 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:
> Reader, 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,
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> 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.
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> 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.