Epitaphs 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 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. 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. 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. 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.