The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-06-22
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!, Ssos Quaint aaA Carlous laseFip
I sioas On Tonbss0aes In ODA Bng
llsh and AneFieah CAurehyards.
In wandering through the vsriou
resting places Of the dead. one nigh
veil. <xcl.im: "Where are the s,nnsrl
buried Z" Surely their graves are MOI
here; the inscriptions ON marble. shaft
Or slab indicate the resting places ol
the good alone Bot in going here and
there through old cemstaries. especially
in England. one often comes across ia
scriptions strangely unlike those IT the
present day. Let a. psss BY the Ordi.
nary ones and reed some Of the extra
ordinary.
The two wives Of Thomas Sexton are
buried in . churchysrd near Newoar
kst Upon the stone over the grave oi
the 6rst one 10 ths following:
Here lies the bsdy Of Ssrsh Sexton
Shs vss . wife that never vsxed enc.
| cant say ~ much for the one, at the
next stone.
In the csmstsry of the old Gray
Fri.rs. Edinburgh. We find:
Here snug in the grave my wife doth
liz,
Now she 10 Ut rest and 90 am I.
Here 10 another:
Here lies my dear wife. . sad slst,ern
aud shrew.
I'll said regretted her ] should lie,
o" tonbst"ne in Cyfosd:
Here, deep in the dust,
The old moldy crust
OF Nell BAtobslor lately shovsn;
Who was skilled in the asts
Of pies. puddinss and tsrts
AID koew every nee OF the even.
When she had lived long enough
She made her last puff
A puf BY her husband much p, aised -
Now here she doth lis .s.
Aad makes dirt pie
In hope that her crust may bs raised.
But these srs rather unjust toward
the fair sex. Let Us look for something
mor~ truthful We find it in st Mi.
chael's Chnrchward. CsveLtry:
she was
But words are wanting
To say what
Look what a wife shoull be.
And she was that.
In memory of Katherine Gray, who
kept a pottery shop at Chester:
Beneath this stone lies old K4th+rius
Gray,
Changed from = busy life to lifeless
clsy;
BY earth and clay shs got her pslf.
Bat now 10 turned TO earth herself.
Ys weeping friends. let me advise,
At'ate your grief and dry your eyes.
For what svAils flood Of tears!
Whe knows but ID run of years.
In some tall pitcher or bread pan
She in her shop may be again?
Upon the tomb Of Narths Wells,
wife Of John Wslis. in Yolkstone. We
read:
We fer from here did come,
Each other for to join,
In peace with al men hsre Ne lived
And did in love combine.
Bot oh. remark the strange,
Yet heavens wise decree;
I'm lo.iGed within the silent grave.
Hes rolling in the sea.
Ia wondering through the old Sleepy
Hollow. csmetssy paused befors m
old mosay ton bstoee. SeeopiuS down
and brushing the moss I read the fol.
Loving:
Pause. reader. pause - you pass by.
A you are now 90 enco vas i;
A. | an now % you will be.
Prepare for death and follow me.
And near By resd: "a #k
Affections sore long time bore.
Physiciaus we're in vain;
Till death did ssixe end God did please
To ease me Of my pain. tt i'll
But enough for the fir sex. Let Us
90 il the stsrpee sex cao boxst OF any.
thing better. We will begin With the
lawyers. lathe ehuschysrd It Norfolk
We 0nd:
God works . wonder nov and thsn;
he. though . lawyer. was an hoosst
0an.
And in Stepney Churchyasd: Len :
don. ups0 lawyer naoed Strange.
Hsrs lies an honest lavyes-that's
Strangsl
Upou tAs ta9betons ef etsphso
Bumbeld q BrigAt~el:
He lived one hundred and I've.
6aaeuipe end strong;
An ksndrsd 70 Ave
You live nUt % loogi
which Il probably true concssnisg the
cost o. us. u Walisn Churchyard ~
read spon she tomb OF George Miles.
blacksmith:
ny slsdgs and hsnoss lie Iselinsd.
NJ bellows also lost their wind;
Ny Ars's extinct. ny forge dscsyed.
M vice l. the dost 10 laid,
NJ cnals ore sp~nt ny iron's gone.
Ny nails ass dsoss. ny vsrk 10 dons.
And upon . solliars sk 81
Here lies the collier. John Of Nastes.
BY whom deash sothing gained. hs
For, kvins, he was dsst and sshss,