Wordy Wednesday

A truly Happy Person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour, 

and, one who can enjoy browsing old cemeteries.....   

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Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York:

Born 1903- Died 1942

Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the

elevator 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 where to go.

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On the grave of Exekial Aikle

in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia:

Here lies Exekial 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 him 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 1880's
In Nantucket, Massachusetts:

Under the sod and under the trees

Lies the body of Johathan 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

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How will you be remembered?

Have you decided what will be on your tombstone?