The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-21

stone in Connecticut village the fol-
lowing:
He who once was sweet to my repose.
Has low become stink unto my nose.
The date was 1882, and the stone
had been erected presumably by II
wife over the grave of her husband
who had fallen victim TO smallpox
The same disease evidently carried
her off few weeks later. for she lay
by his side, aud with grim irony her
hcadstone bore the words:
Here lie nt last In the same bad box,
Carried OIL by that disease-thnt awful small
poN,
The following are gathered at ran
dom fro n various sources, and are
fair samples of their kind:
Here lies the body of Betsey him.
She was suyery pure Within,
She burst her outer shell of sin,
And Matched herself a cherubim
Here lies the body of Nancy Day.
Her would II her could b her couldn't stay,
She had two bad legs aud II uAddish cough,
But 1t was her legs as car led her OH.
Over the grave of 6.days old babe:
Since was so quickly done for.
wonder what was begun for.
A child Is months old
My parents fondness could not save
Ny O,ining genigs from the grave.
Another
rosebud snatched from earth away
Fer It had time To bloom
Taken to realm OF endless day,
Aud here hind the tamb.
The carver is evidently responsible
for the absurdity of this last line
"bohold" was undoubtedly the word
intended.
Dear parents and friends for me do not cry.
Tin etcrnally happy with.Agnus Del.
Husanua In the highest my trouble is DER,
Tell Alpha and Omega the lamb I'll adore.
Here lies two lovely sisters both virtuous, fair
and young
who died gen rally regretted in childbirth of
They together crossed the ocean, was mutual
hope The twsln are happy good Christians
for them pray
down into history by its bcrcaved pa
rents as follows:
In a moment he fed,
He ran to the cistoTn and opened the lid.
His father looked In, there did behold
His child boy dead AMI cold
Over the final resting place of Pat
rick Stanton ami also his son Harvey,
both residents of New Jersey, who de-
parted this life in 1920, the afflicted
wife and mother caused the following
to be Inscribed:
who shall forbid To raise this sacr d stone
| Above the Wondering dust OF hu sband SOM
Bear, then, oh. marble, In thy lasting live,
| III name OF stanton down the track OF time;
| And rest thee, Harvey by thy father clay,
Called from aworlt Of woe to endless day.
Rest till thy Sayiour's voice shall bid thee rise
| Then guide thy sire to glory in the skies.
| On thy dear dust o stanton, husband. friend,
| ON thine, sweet Harvey. sh Il my tears descend
There may be some some to doubt
| the writer's veracity i'll quoting the
following, but it is bona Tide cpitaph
on u tombstone in Vermont town:
| Here lies the body OF samuel woodhcn.
| The best Of husbands and the purcst of men.
N. Ills name was Woodrock, but 1t
wOnldu't rhyme
This is on tombstone in Pckaway
county:
| Here lies the body of W W,
| Aud I'll assure you he'll never trouble you,
Pickaway county also boasts of pos.
sessiug one of the oldest "head-
stones" in the country. The wife
of All old negro having passed Ia
the other side, her bercaved husband
erected monument in memory oi
her many virtues. II was of wood
roughly hewn into the shape OF i
woman with arms aud feet attached
aud the whole WAS covered viii
strange inscriptions. The old fellow
took great satisfaction in this worl
of art which was turned out by hi
own hands, and spent hours daily gaz
ing Mt it.
Many have read the following, whicl
was published several years ago il
ilarpGr's magazine;
Here lies the body of
Robert Gordon,
With mouth almighty aud teeth accordln
Stranger, tread lightly over this wonder,
For II he opens his mouth you're gone, b
thunder.
Here are some random selections:
Al the demand of conquering Death
She Instantly resigned her breath
she died amidst bloom of years
: And leaves her friends bedowed with tears.
List, father aud mother dear,
Tome u harp is given.
And, when touch its strings
I Ma, It's heard all over heaven,
On monument to the memo
young man who died while in
= the writer once observed thea
: ing statement:
!, His bones were null Of marrow
Aud his breasts were full ofmilk.
y No wonder such physiologic
Z curiosity passed away while vet youu
c In years. AS the idea Is borrowr
. from biblical quotation, howevc
: : its use In this case may be pardone
. A very common characteristics
. graveyard literature is bad spellin
4 Lord is often spelled Loard. aud ii
Q dye, and so on. One would imagi,
!. that accuracy would mark work
q deliberate In its character us the q
y craving ofan epitaph. The followil
n are fair instances of the orihograpl
i cal idiosyncrasies mentioned:
% To- young and old that is passing by,
A. " You these lines should read
hYiacmber you have got 10 dye,