Subject: Epitaphs (Page 22)

Excuse Me

Here lies Ezekiel Aikle Age 102 – The Good Die Young.

She was never meant to be understood, just loved.

Here lies two brothers by misfortune surrounded; one died of his wounds but the other was drownded.

Ebenezer Dockwood aged forty seven. A miser and a hypocrite and never went to Heaven.

None of us ever voted for Roosevelt or Truman

Charity, wife of Gideon Bligh, underneath this stone doth lie. Nought was she e'er known to do, that her husband told her to.

Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake. Stepped on the gas instead of the brake.

This is all that remains of poor Ben Hough. He had forty-nine years and that was enough. Of worldly goods he had his share, And now he's gone to the Devil's snare.

The land I cleared is now my grave. Think well, my friends, how you behave

Here lies the body of Jonathan Stout. He fell in the water and never got out, And still is supposed to be floating about.

Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once and now I know it.

This is on me.

Here lies an Atheist. All dressed up and no place to go.

Owen Moore, gone away. Owin' more, than he could pay

Never born, Never died: visited the planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990.

Here lies young Ezikel Height, died from jumping Jim Smith’s claim; didn’t happen at the mining site, the claim he jumped, was Jim Smith’s dame.

Entombed within this vault a lawyer lies, who, fame assureth us was just and wise, an able advocate and honest too; that's wondrous strange, indeed, if it be true.

Moses White. His grand excellence was that he was genuine.

Here lies Tommy Day, removed from over the way.

DEADMAN