Sounds like Burma Shave was active! Patti ----- Original Message ----- From: "HAMID,LINDA (HP-Roseville,ex1)" <linda_hamid@hp.com> To: <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 4:08 PM Subject: [ARMSTRONG-L] Interesting True Tombstones > 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 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. > ****************************** > 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. >