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Humorous Headstones


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.

In a London, England cemetery:
   Here lies Ann Mann,
   Who lived an old maid
   But died an old Mann.

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.

In a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery:
   Here lies Johnny Yeast.
   Pardon me 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.

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, you soon will be.
   Prepare yourself 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

Last add, from Boot Hill, in Tombstone, Arizona:
   Here lies Lester Moore
   One slug from a 44
   No Les
   No More

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