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From: E. Ray Griswold< >
Subject: [CANEVADA-L] Funny MI's
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 07:41:10 -0700

Actual epitaphs from
gravestones ...

>>On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia:
>> Here lies Ezekial Aikle Age 102
>> The Good Die Young.In a London, England cemetery:
>> Ann Mann Here lies Ann Mann,
>> Who lived an old maid But died an old Mann.
>> Dec. 8, 1767In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery:
>> Anna Wallace The children of Israel wanted bread
>> And the Lord sent them manna,
>> Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife,
>> And the Devil sent him Anna.
>>Playing with names in a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery: Here lies
>> Johnny Yeast Pardon me For not rising.
>>Memory of an accident 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 Butch,
>> We planted him raw. He was quick on the trigger,
>> But slow on the draw.
>>A widow wrote this epitaph in a Vermont cemetery:
>> Sacred to the memory of my husband John Barnes
>> who died January 3, 1803
>> His comely young widow, aged 23, has
>> many qualifications of a good wife, and
>> yearns to be comforted.
>>(ed: guess they did not have personal ads then)A lawyer's epitaph in England:
>> Sir John Strange Here lies an honest lawyer,
>> And that is Strange.
>>Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont: I was
somebody.
>> Who, is no business Of yours.
>>Lester Moore was a Wells, Fargo Co. station agent for Naco, Arizona in the
>>cowboy days of the 1880's. He's buried in the Boot Hill Cemetry in
>>Tombtone, Arizona: Here lies Lester Moore
>> Four slugs from a .44 No Les No More.In a Georgia
cemetery:
>> "I told you I was sick!"
>>John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery:
>> Reader if cash thou art In want of any
>> Dig 4 feet deep And thou wilt find a Penny.
>>On Margaret Daniels grave at Hollywood Cemetery Richmond, Virginia:
>> She always said her feet were killing her
>> but nobody believed her.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 has an epitaph that sounds
>>like something from a Three Stooges movie:
>> 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.
>>More fun with names with Owen Moore in Battersea, London, England:
>> Gone away Owin' more Than he could pay.
>>Someone in Winslow, Maine didn't like Mr. Wood: In Memory of
Beza Wood
>> Departed this life Nov. 2, 1837 Aged 45 yrs.
>> Here lies one Wood Enclosed in wood One Wood
>> Within another. The outer wood Is very good:
>> We cannot praise The other.
>>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.
>>The grave of Ellen Shannon in Girard, Pennsylvania is almost a consumertip:
>> Who was fatally burned March 21, 1870
>> by the explosion of a lamp filled with "R.E. Danforth's
>> Non-Explosive Burning Fluid"
>>Oops! 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.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 tombstome:
>> To follow you I'll not consent, Until I know which way you went.
>>---------------------------
>>
Happy Hunting

Ronda Trounce

Sonora , CA USA

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember, amateurs built the ark.
Professionals built the Titanic

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