These r actual writtings found on Tombstones!
Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York
Born 1903 - Died 1941
Looked up the elevator shaft to
see if the car was on the way down
It was.
In a Thurmond, Maryland cemetery
Here lies an Atheist.
All dressed up
and no place to go
In a London, England cemetery
Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann.
December 8, 1767
In 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 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 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.
In a cemetery in England:
Remember man, as you walk by,
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, you soon will be
Prepare yourself 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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