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Old Cemeteries

A truly Happy Person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
And, one who can enjoy browsing old cemeteries ...
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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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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Spike Milligan the actor, comedian wanted 'I told you I was ill ' written on his gravestone
don't know if it was though.
 
Aishia said:
Spike Milligan the actor, comedian wanted 'I told you I was ill ' written on his gravestone
don't know if it was though.
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I believe so, but he had to have it in Latin as the church minister thought it might lower the tone otherwise!
 
A bit to much that 'lowering the tone'. And not everybody can read Latin. amo. amas. amat.
That's about all that I wanted to learn eally in Latin.Must have been a tone deaf minister.
 
More for you:

Here lies John Yeast. Pardon me for not rising

Here lies Scott.Left here to rot

Here lies Henry Blake
He stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake


She always said her feet were killing her.
But no one believed her


Joke's over - Let me out now


Joan Hackett - go away - I'm asleep
 
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