Grave

A GRAVE MATTER

If you are dead, you're history.
Here are examples of how some dearly departed
are remembered.

She always said her feet were killing her,
but nobody believed her.

Once I wasn't
Then I was
Now I ain't again.

"I told you I was sick!"

"Scotty... beam me up!"

Been here:
Now gone:
Had a good time.

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.

Some come to this graveyard
To sit and think,
But I've come here to
Rot and stink.

"Let your wind blow wherever ye be
For holding mine was the death of me."

"I've made a lot of good deals in my lifetime,
but I went in the hole on this one."

At rest beneath this slab of stone
Lies stingy Jimmy Wyatt;
He died one morning just at ten,
And saved a dinner by it.

Owen Moore
Gone away
Owin' more
Than he could pay.

Looked up the elevator shaft to see if
the car was on the way down. It was.

John Brown, a dentist
Stranger! Approach this spot with gravity!
John Brown is filling his last cavity.

Sacred to the memory of my husband John Barnes who died January 3, 1803
His comely young widow, aged 23,
has many qualifications of a good wife,
and yearns to be comforted.

An epitaph that was written for a young baby:
Opened my eyes, took a peek;
Didn't like it, went to sleep.

In a cementary 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.