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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.
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:
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 :
Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102. Only The Good Die Young.
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In a London, England cemetery:
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:
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:
Here lies Johnny Yeast... Pardon me for not rising.
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In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery:
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:
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 :
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:
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 :
On the 22nd of June,
Jonathan Fiddle went out of tune.
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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.
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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
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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.
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