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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nikonpup" data-source="post: 520123" data-attributes="member: 9922">WHEN WE GO: 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![FONT=&quot][/FONT]  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.  ==================================  THIS ONE  IS EXTREMELY WELL WRITTEN:-  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.)</blockquote>

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