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TRUE EPITAPHS:
1. In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery:
Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up
And no place to go.
2. On the grave of Ezekiel Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia:
Here lies
Ezekiel Aikle
Age 102
The Good
Die Young.
3. In a London, England cemetery:
Ann Mann
Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann.
Dec. 8, 1767
4. 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.
5. Playing with names in a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery:
Here lies
Johnny Yeast
Pardon me
For not rising.
6. A lawyer's epitaph in England:
Sir John Strange
Here lies an honest lawyer,
And that is Strange.
7. Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont:
I was somebody.
Who, is no business
Of yours.
8. Lester Moore was a Wells, Fargo Co. station agent for Naco, Arizona in the cowboy days of the 1880's.
He's buried in the Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona:
Here lies Lester Moore
Four slugs from a .44
No Les No More.
9. In a Georgia cemetery:
'I told you I was sick!'
10. The grave of Ellen Shannon in Girard, Pennsylvania is almost a consumer tip:
Who was fatally burned
11. March 21, 1870
by the explosion of a lamp
filled with 'R.E. Danforth's
Non ExplosiveBurningFluid'
12. Oops! 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 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
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ANCESTORS
If you could see your Ancestors all standing in a row,
Would you be proud of them or not - or don't you really know?
Some strange discoveries are made in climbing family trees
And some of them, you know, do not particularly please.
If you could see your ancestors all standing in a row,
There might be some of them perhaps you wouldn't care to know.
But here's another question which requires a different view:
If you could meet your Ancestors, would they be proud of you?
Author Unknown
:-)
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