Author: Epitaph Page 14

Farewell my young companions all. From death's arrest no age is free. Remember this, a warning call. Prepare to follow after me.

Sacred to the memory of Miss Martha Grimm. She was so very spare within, she burst the outward shell of sin and hatched herself a cherubim.

I was not, I am not, I grieve not

Here lies Frank a shining light, whose name, life, actions all were white.

The manner of her death was thus; She was druv over by a Bus.

All you that please these lines to read, it will cause a tender heart to bleed, I murdered was up on the fell, and by the man I knew full well; by bread & butter which he'd laid, I, being harmless, was betray'd. I hope he will rewarded be, that laid the poison there for me.

Here lies the body of Detlof Swenson, waiter. God finally caught his eye.

At last, a year-round resident

Here lies Dave Jordan – His last words were a shame… 'There's a light at the end of the tunnel'… Unfortunately it was a train

None of us ever voted for Roosevelt or Truman

We all have a debt – To nature due – I've paid mine – And so must you.

Here lies John Hill, a man of skill. His age was five times ten, he ne'er did good, nor ever would, had he lived as long again.

Here lies the body of Samuel Proctor, who lived and died without a doctor.

“Here lies my wife in earthy mold, Who when she died and naught but scold. Good friends go softly in your walking lest she should wake and rise up talking”

He has gone to the only place where his own works are excelled.

At length a grave spots for him provided, where all through him so many of us died did.

I Was Supposed To Live To Be 102 and Be Shot By A Jealous Husband

I am not grieved, my dearest life. Sleep on, I've got another wife. Therefore, I cannot come to thee For I must go and live with she.

Ruth and Johnny, Side by side, Went out for an auto ride, They hit a bump. Ruth hit a tree, And John kept going – Ruthlessly.

John and Lydia, that blooming pair, a whale killed him and her body lies here.

Here lieth, underneath these stones, The Beard, the Flesh, and eke the Bones Of Wrexham's Clerk, old Daniel Jones.