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Title: Old Tombstone Inscriptions: some great ones!!
Post by: JuST Peter on May 14, 2015, 04:42:26 AM
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.
  =============================
  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.
  Clark Wallace wanted a wife,
  And the Devil sent him Anna.
  ===============================
  In a Ruidoso, New Mexico , cemetery:
  Here lies Johnny Yeast.
  Pardon him for not rising.
  ===============================
  In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania , cemetery:
  Here lies the body of 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.
  ==================================
  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.

 
 
 
Title: Re: Old Tombstone Inscriptions: some great ones!!
Post by: WendyL on May 14, 2015, 08:49:02 AM
Some good ones in there....
Title: Re: Old Tombstone Inscriptions: some great ones!!
Post by: ppopeye on May 14, 2015, 04:31:20 PM
 :like :like :like
Title: Re: Old Tombstone Inscriptions: some great ones!!
Post by: Kev Murphy on May 14, 2015, 08:28:52 PM
(http://i1029.photobucket.com/albums/y352/kjm47/my_tombstone%201_zpsqioma0qc.jpg) (http://s1029.photobucket.com/user/kjm47/media/my_tombstone%201_zpsqioma0qc.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Old Tombstone Inscriptions: some great ones!!
Post by: Biggles on May 14, 2015, 08:38:08 PM
That's a twist on Mark Twain's, I believe.
Title: Re: Old Tombstone Inscriptions: some great ones!!
Post by: Kev Murphy on May 14, 2015, 08:44:14 PM
Supposedly from the wild west...

(http://i1029.photobucket.com/albums/y352/kjm47/my_tombstone%203_zps8gmxlg1t.jpg) (http://s1029.photobucket.com/user/kjm47/media/my_tombstone%203_zps8gmxlg1t.jpg.html)