Scotch-Irish-L Archives

From: "Hood, Roger L." <>
Subject: [NC-SC] Unusual Epitaphs :)
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:25:53 -0400

Forgive me, please for the off-subject post, but I wanted to share this
with my new friends and acquaintances among the Scots, Scotch-Irish and
Irish.

Roger L. Hood

>
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> But does he make house calls?
>> Dr. Fred Roberts
>> Brookland, Arkansas:
>> Office upstairs
>>
>> --------- End forwarded message ----------
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> Lost your welcome message?
>> Send GET NC-SC-ROOTS-L WELCOME to
> for
>> another copy.
>>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

This thread:

• [NC-SC] Unusual Epitaphs :) by "Hood, Roger L." <>