>Resent-Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:07:27 -0700 (PDT) >From: "Joe & Laura Schmidt" <schmidtm@3-cities.com> >Old-To: "Dixie Marie Bass" <dbass@3-cities.com>, > "Ronda Fae Bass" <ronda.fae.dlfn@usa.net>, > "Mary Ellen Kienenberger" <meknbrgr@techline.com>, > "Mary C. Schmidt" <mschmidt@tcfn.org>, > "Joe & Becky" <jschmidt@3-cities.com>, > "Hamilton Mailing List" <Hamilton-l@rootsweb.com>, > "Fianna Mailing List" <fianna-L@rootsweb.com> >Old-Cc: "Deep South Roots" <DEEP-SOUTH-ROOTS-L@listserv.indiana.edu>, > "SC-Genealogy" <SC-Genealogy-L@rootsweb.com>, > "Ricky R. Bass" <Ricky_Bass@kodiak.alaska.edu>, > "Penny Menges" <pennym@bmi.net>, > "Moore Mailing List" <Moore-L@rootsweb.com>, > "Monica Lake" <mj_lake@hotmail.com>, "Mike Schmidt" <schmidtm@usa.net>, > "Melvin J.(Joe) Schmidt" <melvin_j_joe_schmidt@rl.gov>, > "Mavis Mims" <mavism@isgroup.net>, > "Margaret tex^mom Cobb" <seekr@flash.net>, > "Kevin O. Fraley" <swimref@cmc.net>, "Kathy Burnum" <stburnum@aol.com>, > "Karl Agee" <kdagee@ibm.net>, > "Joe & Laura Schmidt" <schmidtm@3-cities.com>, > "Jim & Golda" <reinkens@3-cities.com>, > "Gail Crary" <ncrary@3-cities.com>, "Donna & Lee" <bivens@eburg.com>, > "Bedford Mailing List" <PABedfor-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:04:50 -0700 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 >Subject: [MOORE-L] Humorous Epitaphs >To: MOORE-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: MOORE-L@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: MOORE-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <MOORE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/5429 >X-Loop: MOORE-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: MOORE-L-request@rootsweb.com > > >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. > >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 Cemetery >in Tombstone, 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. > > > >==== MOORE Mailing List ==== >For instructions for subscribing and unsubscribing: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~sueskay/lists/moore-l.htm > > > > > > > > ************************************************************************* Betty Lou Riley () chipmunk@zoomnet.net ~{_)/ List Owner for: `` OHAdams-L, KYGreenu-L, Crockett-L, McGovney-L and Webb-L *Check out my Web site (Riley's Camp) at: http://www.zoomnet.net/~chipmunk/ *Look in the Forest for my Family trees.*