My favorite is: I told them I was sick. Pat Kelli Barton wrote: > >Received this from another site.....I don't know its validity.....I just > >thought it was humorous, so I decided to share it with > everyone............. > > ... > >> > >>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: > >> Ann Mann > >> Here lies Ann Mann, > >> Who lived an old maid > >> But died an old Mann. > >> Dec. 8, 1767 > >> > >>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. > >> > >>Playing with names in a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery: > >> Here lies > >> Johnny Yeast > >> Pardon me > >> For not rising. > >> > >>Memory of an accident 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 Butch, > >> We planted him raw. > >> He was quick on the trigger, > >> But slow on the draw. > >> > >>A widow wrote this epitaph in a Vermont cemetery: > >> Sacred to the memory of > >> my husband John Barnes > >> who died January 3, 1803 > >> His comely young widow, aged 23, has > >> many qualifications of a good wife, and > >> yearns to be comforted. > >>(ed: guess they did not have personnal ads then) > >> > >>A lawyer's epitaph in England: > >> Sir John Strange > >> Here lies an honest lawyer, > >> And that is Strange. > >> > >>Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont: > >> I was somebody. > >> Who, is no business > >> Of yours. > >> > >>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 Cemetry in > >>Tombtone, Arizona: > >> Here lies Lester Moore > >> Four slugs from a .44 > >> No Les No More. > >> > >>In a Georgia cemetery: > >> "I told you I was sick!" > >> > >>John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery: > >> Reader if cash thou art > >> In want of any > >> Dig 4 feet deep > >> And thou wilt find a Penny. > >> > >>On Margaret Daniels grave at Hollywood Cemetery Richmond, Virginia: > >> She always said her feet were killing her > >> but nobody believed her. > >> > >>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 has an epitaph that > sounds > >>like something from a Three Stooges movie: > >> 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. > >> > >>More fun with names with Owen Moore in Battersea, London, England: > >> Gone away > >> Owin' more > >> Than he could pay. > >> > >>Someone in Winslow, Maine didn't like Mr. Wood: > >> In Memory of Beza Wood > >> Departed this life > >> Nov. 2, 1837 > >> Aged 45 yrs. > >> Here lies one Wood > >> Enclosed in wood > >> One Wood > >> Within another. > >> The outer wood > >> Is very good: > >> We cannot praise > >> The other. > >> > >>On a grave from the 1880's 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. > >> > >>The grave of Ellen Shannon in Girard, Pennsylvania is almost a consumer > >tip: > >> Who was fatally burned > >> March 21, 1870 > >> by the explosion of a lamp > >> filled with "R.E. Danforth's > >> Non-Explosive Burning Fluid" > >> > >>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 Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery: > >> Here lies an Atheist > >> All dressed up > >> And no place to go. > >> > >>In a cemetary in England: > >> Remember man, as you walk by, > >> As you are now, so once was I, > >> As I am now, so shal you be, > >> Remember this and follow me. > >> > >>To which someone replied by writing on the tombstome: > >> > >> To follow you I'll not consent, > >> Until I know which way you went. > > ==== ILMADISO Mailing List ==== > Visit the Madison County Home Page! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmadiso/index.htm