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.
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> ============ ========= ========
> >> > In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery:
> >> > Here lies an Atheist, all dressed up and no place to go.
> >> > >>> ============ ========= ========
> >> >
> >> > 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 me 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.

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Dave