Interesting True 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.
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: 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. Old clerk 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.
To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone: To
follow you I'll not consent Until I know which way you went.