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.