"Epitaphs" joke
Actual epitaphs from real tombstones: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.Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery:
Here lies
Johnny Yeast
Pardon me
For not rising.Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery:
Here lies the body
of Jonathan Blake
Stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake.Anonymous in Stowe, Vermont:
I was somebody.
Who, is no business
Of yours.In a Georgia cemetery:
"I told you I was sick!"Margaret Daniels grave at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia:
She always said her feet were killing her
but nobody believed her.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.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.And, Dr. Fred Roberts, Brookland, Arkansas:
Office upstairs
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