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"Amusing En-gravings"

On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia:  
Here lies  
Ezekial Aikle  
Age 102  
The Good  
Die Young.  
 
 
In a London, England cemetery:  
Ann Mann  
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,  
Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife,  
And the Devil sent him Anna.  
 
 
Playing with names in a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery:  
Here lies  
Johnny Yeast  
Pardon me  
For not rising.  
 
 
Memory of an accident 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 Butch,  
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.  
 
 
Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont:  
I was somebody.  
Who, is no business  
Of yours.  
 
 
Lester Moore was a Wells, Fargo Co. station agent for Naco, Arizona in the cowboy days of the 1880's. He's buried in the Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona:  
Here lies Lester Moore  
Four slugs from a .44  
No Les No More.  
 
 
In a Georgia cemetery:  
"I told you I was sick!"  
 
 
John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery:  
Reader if cash thou art  
In want of any  
Dig 4 feet deep  
And thou wilt find a Penny.  
 
 
On Margaret Daniels grave at Hollywood Cemetery Richmond, Virginia:  
She always said her feet were killing her  
but nobody believed her.  
 
 
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 has an epitaph that sounds like something from a Three Stooges movie:  
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.  
 
 
More fun with names with Owen Moore in Battersea, London, England:  
Gone away  
Owin' more  
Than he could pay.  
 
 
Someone in Winslow, Maine didn't like Mr. Wood:  
In Memory of Beza Wood  
Departed this life  
Nov. 2, 1837  
Aged 45 yrs.  
Here lies one Wood  
Enclosed in wood  
One Wood  
Within another.  
The outer wood  
Is very good:  
We cannot praise  
The other.  
 
 
On a grave from the 1880's 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.  
 
 
The grave of Ellen Shannon in Girard, Pennsylvania is almost a consumer tip:  
Who was fatally burned  
March 21, 1870  
by the explosion of a lamp  
filled with "R.E. Danforth's  
Non-Explosive Burning Fluid"  
 
 
Oops! 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.