Saying Goodbye.

David Green · 2025-07-22T12:34:47Z

Some fascinating things on old tombstones. 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. And the final one… On a tombstone in Boothill Cemetery, Tombstone, Arizona: Here lies Lester Moore Four slugs from a 44 No Les, No more

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23/07/2025 3:47 pm

Perrone...Tony Perrone.

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@perrone1 Better that inscription on Fields' gravestone than his other famous line about why he preferred drinking booze rather than water.......

and..."It was a woman who drove me to drink....and I never wrote to thank her!"

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