Kelli: Thanks for the chuckle. signed Nancy -----Original Message----- From: Kelli Barton <barton22@earthlink.net> To: ILMADISO-L@rootsweb.com <ILMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 2:34 PM Subject: Fw: [REESE-L] Fw: Humorous Epitaphs > > > > >>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 > >