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FUNNY TOMBSTONES
Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York:Â
Born 1903 – Died 1942 Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down.Â
It was.
Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia
Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102.Â
Only the Good Die Young.
In a Ruidoso, New Mexico cemetery:
Here lies Johnny Yeast.Â
Pardon him for not rising.
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:Â
On the 22nd of June,Â
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.Â
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:Â
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.