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September 5, 2008

Humorous Gravestone inscriptions

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.


In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England:
On the 22nd of June,
Jonathan Fiddle went out of tune.

in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia :
Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102.
Only The Good Die Young.

In a London cemetery:
Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
but died an old Mann. Dec. 8, 1767

In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery:
Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake.
Stepped on the gas instead of the brake

Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, USA
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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