Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-06-20
EPITAPHs.
A Number of Remarkable Ones Gath
cred from yariUus Sources.
Nav York Mail,

New York Mail.
Its well that writers Of epnaphs rec.
ogni1e the value OF giving to the world
the history in brief OF those they cele-
brate, else \ great deal of valuable in
formation concerning people who have
renounoed their interest in the things
in this transitory OF existence, would be
lost, Certainly we could ill-atlord TO
spare the following, from Bath Abbey,
England, IN which wit and accuracy
are 81 admirably combined:
Here heS ANA Mann
She lived an Old Maid
And dted an Old Man,
In Ookham church, Snrry, England,
we fell in with this tiptop description
Of falling leaf from the tree of life;
The Lord saw geo. was topping on wood,
And down lei nom the Tree,
met with Chcuk aud broke my blessed neck,
Amt 81 death topped Oh me,
Coming nearer home we drop into
poetry, ut Biddotord, Maine, and regret
that the marriage feast did coldly fur-
nish forth the funeral table;
The wedding dW appointed was
The wedding clothes provided,
Hut ere that day did como, alas
hn sickened and he dicdcd,
II is evident that the swan did not
sing this strain from the churchyard Mt
Standardization, though he probably
borrowed from il tho idea expressed
IN, " Ito WAS n man, take him for all in
all, etc.
Mike was IN temper and in solo sincere
Ann Husband tender and Father deer
Ito wRs Father kind
Aud mOdlst IN his mind
greater hlrsSin to nMnAn
Never mur was piV'n
Nor u greater loss ckscpt the loss OF neaN'n.
Tho lady refolrcd to IN these lines
may not have boon relative of the
banker Coutts, but she was certainly
quite rs familiar with vaults;
luihls chuVhyert lIos Ripple Cou,,s
kther here or Wcrcahout
Hut whaur u Is nouu can tell
TIL Ripple rtsu aud toll horSel
Here is u rare example of fortitude.
which was finally overcome by tender
rcoollections Of the deceased,
Uor husband nuvor dropped tear
Til nv had placed her body here
And thcn he hlubnrred lko great tout
For lrnr she a scratch her passage ont
Fifty years il n comparatively brief
separation when eternity liz taken into
consideration;
sm auSlously expecting you "A, II, tss,
Here nm--A. u. 1867,
We do not assert that the lady so
touohingly, dramatically and rheu-
matically recalled below was u pedos-
triunne, but il Ia reasonable TO suppose
that she might have been, from tho
way she went ont of tho world
Poor Martin sncll, hers ROM AWAY
Her would " her could hut her couldn't stay
Herd two eoro logs and haddah raugh
hut her legs II was "a carried her OIL
Tho evil effects of drinking water i'd
vortei to in tho suhjoining will gisn
comfort to many stimulating soul;
licrr He's ind my thruc daughters,
Az from drinking the Choltenham waters,
II We had kept to tho Ersom snts
W. shonldnt have been IN these hare vaults,
Our friends, tho druggists, must look
upon this charge m II base libel. II Is
no doubt weak invention and the
ohildaluded to probably died of natural
causes:
In thia grave ropoees donr little dead
| Susic Loo her name. and her ngo lust one year;
Hhu diud Of drug stuiIs In too largo dose,
| which threw her In iits and madu her yamose.
We, too, have run our race, NJ far IA
grave subjects arc concerned, and # the
collection we have offered is not NJ deep
M tomb, hope with Merd,,tio, that IL
will do.