=============================
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.
=============================
On the grave of 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.
================================
A lawyer's epitaph in
England:
Sir John Strange.
Here lies an honest lawyer,
and that is Strange.
===============================
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.
=================================
John Penny's epitaph in
the Wimborne, England cemetery:
Reader, if cash thou art in want of any,
dig six feet deep and thou wilt find a Penny.
=============================
In a Hartscombe,
England cemetery:
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.
