Thursday, February 12, 2009

Curious Epitaphs

Found in a New England Graveyard:

Here lies John Auricular,
Who in the ways of the Lord walked perpendicular

On the tomb of an auctioneer at Greenwood:

Going, going, GONE !

On the tomb of Sir John Strange, a barrister:

Here lies an honest lawyer - that is Strange.

Found in Torrington churchyard, Devon:

She was - but words are wanting to say what.
Think what a woman should be - she was that.

Someone replied:

A woman should be both a wife and mother,
But Jenny Jones was neither one nor t'other.

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