The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-01-08


burst of solemn laughter.
odhf affAJIpTgHPfa dteH IRON HmhfSsR6fffRhn ai
appropriately commences the selections.
1t is in Burton church, on the grave of
Elizabeth Ireland, died 1873:
Here lie at the chancel door,
Here 1 lie because L IN poor;
The farther in, the more you pay:
Here lie l. as warm as they.
The next q specimen of tombstone
breyity, is at Wrexham:
Here lies Shore,
j say no more,
Who alive
In sixty-ive.
The following jaunty specimen is at
Stepney, on William Wheatly, who died
A. D. 1888:
Whoever treadeth on this stone,
pray you tread most neatly, LC &.
.t- For underneath the same doth lie
Your honest friend, Will. Wheatly.
In Barnstable church, on John Boyle,
who died A. d. 1864, aged eight years:
Blest the Prophet in his II avenly shade,
But, OH how soon did his umbrella tadel
Like our frail bodies, which, being born Of clay,
Spring in night, and wither in a day
A tolerably safe bet is the following,
at Brightwell, on Stephen Rumbold, who
died a d. 1857, aged 105:
He lived One Hundred and Five
Sanguine and strong;
An Hundred to Five
You live not so long.
The following solemn tombstone bal
lad is from Folkestone, on Martha Wells,
wife of John Wells, died 1777:
We far from home did come,
Each other for to joins
In peace with all men here we lived,
And did in Love combine;
But Oh! remark the strange
Yet Heavens wise decree
m lodged within the silent grave,
He s rolling on the sea.
The following is a whole epic con-
densed into an epitaph of epigrammatic
terseness; it is from King Stanley
churchyard, Worcestershire, on Ann
Collins, who died Sept IL, 1904, aged
40:
IT she trirped from cask to cask,
tfrv E,.ues iala quickly fell:
sufocation her task,
S@S iss sa y d wi Wis = fEe6e Grave ave
died May %, 1877, aged 81 years,
who, during 40 years
practice a midwife
In this city, brought into
the world nine thousand
seven hundred and
thirty children
If Nautilus, the AUTHORIZATION man.
should meet Mrs. Crave in the land of
spirits, he would knock her on the head
with his Essay on Population. What-a-
heap OF misery one woman brought into
the wOrldl And some of these 9.73O
children, or their descendants. probably
voted the Butternut ticket in Ohio, and
thus caused our woe.
We quote a few more at random:
Gentle Reader, gentle Reader,
Look on the spot where I do lie,
was always very good feeder
But nov the worms do feed on r.
At Church Crefon, Salon:
On Thursday she was born,
On a Thursday made bride,
On Thursday put to bed, ~
On Thursday broke her leg, and
On Thursday died.
AT Woolstanton, on the grave of Ann
Jennings:
Some have children-some have none
Here lies the mother of twenty-one.
AT Oakham, 1926, on wood-cutter
The Lord saw good, 1 was looping of wood. T
And down fell from the tree, rH %
1 met with check, and broke my neck, b.
And SO death Topped off me.
As a match to the unhappy wood-cut-
ter's fate, we give the epitaph ON Mr..
Joseph Grapp, shipwright,' in Maylor,
Cornwalk l--
Alas, friend Joseph,
His end Allmost Sudden.
As though the mandate came
Express from Heaven
his foot it Sip-and he did fall
help, help, he cries, and that was all.
At Edwalton, Nottinghamshire. on Re-
becca Freeland, died 1741:
She drank good ale good punch and wine.
and lived to the age of99.
The nextis rather severe on a departed
es-I-u--sss''s,v-s ,,Vj
dead before he dared do so:
Beneath this silent stone is laid
A noisy, ANTICIPATED maid,
VINO from her cradle talked till DEATH
And ne.er before was out Of breath.
The statement in the next is somewhat
open to exceptions of fact
Under this sod lies Joseph Round.
Who was lost in the s,a and never was found
In GuilsGeld church-yard, on David
Williams, died 1863:
Under the Yew Tree
Buried would he be,
Because his Father-hc
Planted this Yew Tree
The most touching Of all the epitaphs
given is the following with which we tear
fully close our "Meditations among the
Tombs. = II is from Dymock, Glonces-
tershire, on the graves of two children:
Two sweeter babes you mare did SEQ
Than God NIFTY gecd 70 wee
But they wur ortaken wee agur fits
And here they lye as dead as nits
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