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Browsing Old Cemetery Inscriptions


Browsing Old Cemetery Inscriptions
By Linus Joseph Dewald Jr., Editor
Spring 2009 and Revised 1 Apr 2009

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 we received from Ray Matous:

  • 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.

  • On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery , Nova Scotia :
    Here lies Ezekial Aikle,
    Age 102.
    Only The Good Die Young.

  • In a London , England cemetery:
    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.
    Clark Wallace wanted a wife,
    And the Devil sent him Anna.

  • In a Ruidoso, New Mexico , cemetery:
    Here lies Johnny Yeast...
    Pardon him for not rising.

  • 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 The Kid.
    We planted him raw.
    He was quick on the trigger
    But slow on the draw.

  • A lawyer's epitaph in England :
    Sir John Strange.
    Here lies an honest lawyer,
    and that is Strange.

  • John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England , cemetery:
    Reader, if cash thou art in want of any,
    Dig 6 feet deep and thou wilt find a Penny.

  • 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 :
    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.

  • On a grave from the 1880s 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.

  • In a cemetery in England :
    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.

If you know of any other interesting inscriptions, please send your information to us at the Prentice Newsletter. Be sure to give the full title and date of this article in the Subject line of the email.

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