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From: "Marlene Pointer" <>
Subject: [EUBANKS] Grave Markings
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:15:33 -0800


These were sent to me by a friend. Have you seen any better? M.

Subject: Something grave
>
>
> Actual epitaphs from gravestones:
>
> Here lies Ezekiel Aikle
> Age 102; The Good Die Young.
>
>
> Ann Mann: Here lies Ann Mann,
> Who lived an old maid; But died an old Mann.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> Here lies Johnny Yeast
> Pardon me for not rising.
>
>
> A lawyer´s epitaph in England:
> Sir John Strange
> Here lies an honest lawyer,
> And that is Strange.
>
>
> I was somebody; Who, is no business of Yours
>
>
> Lester Moore was a Well, Fargo Co. station
> agent during the cowboy days of the 1880´s.
> 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:
> Reader if cash thou art In want of any
> Dig 6 feet deep And thou wilt find a Penny
>
>
> Owen Moore Gone away
> Owin´ more Than he could pay
>
>
> Someone in Maine didn´t like Mr. Wood:
> In Memory of Beza Wood
> Departed this life 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> Oops! Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, NY:
> Looked up the elevator shaft to see if
> the car was on the way down. It was.
>
>
> Here lies an Atheist
> All dressed up
> And no place to go.
>
>
> 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.

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