Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-12-02
CURIOUS EPITAPHs.
The WITTY, Wise and Wondrous Say
ing of Obituary Poets.

SIS vs. ODtAAsestI D&s"*
Chambers Journal in very interesting
article on epitaphs gives the following:
ON JOHN WHITE.
"Here lies John, u shining light,
Whose name, life, actions, all were Whlte.n
The following was rather epigrammatic |
than epitaphic ia regard to Rev. John
Chest:
"Beneath this spot lies buried
One Chest within another;
The outer chest was all that's coed:
VINO says 50 vi tue ether 2"
Willism Wilton, buried in lambeth,
certainly did not write the epitaph which
bears relation to him;
"Here lyeth W. w,
Who never more VIII trouble you, trouble you"
Nor, We may ssfely assert did Owen
Moore himself pen the following:
"0wen Moore is gone away,
OWN more than lie could pay"
More likely TO be genuine are those cpl
tsphs which involve a bit of bad logic.
syntax, or grammar in their composition,
In a grave yard at Montrose is said to be
the following;
III re yes the bodies of George
Young aud all their po-terity
For nifty years backwards"
And in Wrexham church yard as follows
"Here lies Ave babies and children dear,
Three at Oswestry, aud two here"
Aka to this loeiea laundering is;
Here lies the remains Of
Thomas MsOlm, who died in
Philadelphia, March, 1853;
Had lie li9ed he would have
Been buried here"
And another at Neltlebed, in Oxford
shire:
Here lies father and moihnr and sisle- and |;
We all died within The space Of short year /;
We all he buried ut Wimbe, except /;
Aud be buried here
Here lies John Adams, who received thump,
| Right on Tue forehead. tom tue parish pump"
Here lays john with Mary his bride
They lived and they laughed while they were
Aud at last was obliged to knock under the
! ..- table"
Here lies, wrapped IN clay,
the body Of William Wray
| have no more to say
Sarcastic epitaphs, not necessarily involv-
ing pun on the name are, We suspect,
SELDOM TO be found really engraved on
COMMISSIONERS; and only in some cases
written by relations of the deceased. If
Dryden really wrote the epitaph on his
wife, attributed to HIM, and which he
Intended for her Tombstone, and he out
lived her, he must indeed have felt and
owed her but lIttle affection
"flere lies my wife here let her lie,
She's now at rest, and 50 am IT,
0ne Mrs. Shute gave occasion, We are
told, for the following:
"Here lies cut down like uuripe fruit,
The wife ct Deacon Amos Shute;
She did nt nrinking loo much coffee,
Amy DUmlny eighteen forty"
james Wyatt, of course, took no part ii
the connection of this effusioH:
''At rest beneath III : church-yard stone
Lies sugy Jenny Wyatt;
He died one morning iust at ten,
Aud saved dinner by it,
The occupation of II dyer has suggested
many epitaphs of an obvious character
such IS:
ale dyed to live, aud lived to dye"
Also:
ale died himself, and d. cd no more.n
So many jokes were fired off at the lat
Sir William Curtis-an Alderman distiu
Ruished for defective education aud ba
grammar-ihat we need not feel surprise
at an epitaph couched thus:
"Ilcre lies William Curtis.
our late Lord Mayor,
Vino has lett THIS here world,
Aud gone 10 that there ="
A useful mat Is wrapped up in tha TO
LOVING:
"Ded OF thin SHOES. January. 1889"