[BITList] Old cemeteries

[Michael Feltham]

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> Good old ones keep on coming around….
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> From a correspondent…
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> Old Cemeteries 
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> A truly Happy Person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour and, one who can enjoy browsing old cemeteries ... 
> Some fascinating things on old tombstones!
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> Harry Edsel Smith of Albany , New York : 
> Born 1903--Died 1942. 
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> Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the 
> car was on the way down. It was. 
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> In a Thurmont, Maryland , cemetery: 
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> Here lies an Atheist, all dressed up 
> and no place to go. 
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> On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in 
> East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia: 
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> Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102. 
> Only the good die young. 
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> In a London, England cemetery: 
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> Here lies Ann Mann, who lived an old maid 
> but died an old Mann. Dec. 8, 1767 
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> In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery: 
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> Anna Wallace 
> The children of Israel wanted bread, 
> And the Lord sent them manna. 
> Clark Wallace wanted a wife, 
> And the Devil sent him Anna. 
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> In a Ruidoso, New Mexico , cemetery: 
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> Here lies Johnny Yeast. 
> Pardon him for not rising. 
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> In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania , cemetery: 
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> Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake, 
> Stepped on the gas instead of the brake. 
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> In a Silver City , Nevada , cemetery: 
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> Here lays The Kid, 
> We planted him raw. 
> He was quick on the trigger, 
> But slow on the draw. 
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> A lawyer's epitaph in England : 
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> Sir John Strange. 
> Here lies an honest lawyer, 
> and that is Strange. 
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> John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, 
> England , cemetery: 
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> Reader, if cash thou art in want of any, 
> Dig 6 feet deep and thou wilt find a Penny. 
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> In a cemetery in Hartscombe , England : 
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> On the 22nd of June, Jonathan Fiddle went out of tune. 
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> Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls , 
> Vermont : 
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> 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. 
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> On a grave from the 1880s in Nantucket , 
> Massachusetts : 
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> 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. 
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> In a cemetery in England : 
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> 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. 
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> To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone: 
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> To follow you I'll not consent, 
> Until I know which way you went.
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> Stranger, approach this place with gravity,
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> Dentist, Dave Cory, has filled his last cavity.
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