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Interesting True Tombstones!
These are true Epitaphs on Headstones around the world!
Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York:
Born 1903 Died 1942
Looked up the elevator shaft to
see if the car was coming down.
It was!
In a Thurmont, Maryland cemetry:
Here lies an atheist.
All dressed up and
no where to go.
On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in
East Dalhousie, Nova Scotia:
Here lies Ezekial Aikle aged 102
The good die young.
In a London, England cemetry:
Here lies Ann Mann, who lived
an old maid, but died an old Mann
December 8th 1767.
In a Ribblesford, England cemetry:
Anna Wallace. The children of Israel
wanted bread, and the Lord sent
them manna. Wallace wanted a wife,
and the Devil sent him Anna.
In a Ruidoso, New Mexico cemetry:
Here lies Johnny Yeast.
Pardon me for not rising.
In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetry:
Her lies the body of Jonathan Blake.
Stepped on the gas instead
of the brake.
In a Silver City, Nevada cemetry:
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 Wimborne, England:
Reader, if cash thou art in want of any,
dig six feet deep and thou will find a Penny.
In a cemetry 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 was not the fruit that laid her low,
but the skin of the thing that made her go.
On a grave from the 1880's 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 cemetry 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 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!
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