[or-roots] Browsing Old Cemeteries

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In the Jacques Spur Cemetery in Idaho is a tombstone "Custer said the only good Indian was a dead Indian well (I forget the date) we made Custer a good white man). 

This is a Native American Cemetery, many my ancestor's. 

Glen Jones Portland 



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From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net> 
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I hope I can be forgiven for this one, it is sort of genealogy.    Les 



Browsing Old Cemeteries 

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! 

  

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 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 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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