Browsing Old Cemeteries
07.16.08 (10:42 am) [edit]
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
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 , Nova Scotia:
Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102. Only The
Good Die Young.
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In a London
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
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
Here lies Johnny Yeast... Pardon me
for not rising.
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In a Uniontown,Pennsylvania
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,
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 inEnosburg 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.
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On a grave from the 1880s inNantucket ,
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 inEngland :
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.
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
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 , Nova Scotia:
Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102. Only The
Good Die Young.
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In a London
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
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
Here lies Johnny Yeast... Pardon me
for not rising.
========================= ======
In a Uniontown,Pennsylvania
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.
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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,
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 inEnosburg 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.
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On a grave from the 1880s inNantucket ,
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 inEngland :
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.