Some fascinating things on old tombstones!

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  1. JohnO

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    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.

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    In a Thurmont, Maryland , cemetery:

    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 Cemetery , Nova Scotia :

    Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102. Only The

    Good Die Young.

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    In a London , England cemetery:

    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 , 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.

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    In a Ruidoso, New Mexico , cemetery:

    Here lies Johnny Yeast... Pardon me

    for not rising.

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    In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania , cemetery:

    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 , cemetery:

    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 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.

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    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.

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    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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  3. lunatik_69

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    Those are funny, reminds me of the tombstones in the haunted mansion in Disney World.