The sun., 1886-12-23
ODD OBITUARIES.
Amusing Specimens OF American
Church Lore.
Samples from All Parts Of the United
States with . Few British Froduc~
tions Thr0wa .In-Muuaor Un-
consc;ously Expressed.

A p1ehy specimen OF lampO0nlng IS seen
IN 1.-The lines erected over lawyer at
Newburyport, Mass:
God works wooders now and then,
Here lies q lawyer, IN honest mao.
The Arizona Tombstone states as . solemn
fact that tho following appeared in . local
contemporary: ITO tho memory OF Tab
itha, wife Of Moses Fledgler, gentlemanly
wife Of the Appeai, aged fifty Eve years.
Terms, - year in advance; offcs over
Colenan's grocery up two flights. We
shall miss thee, mother; We shall miss
thea Job printing neatly done"
ElAu Yale, the founder of Yale College,
at New Haven, lies buried in alittle church
1T Wrenham, Denbigshire, Wales His
monument bears this Inscriptions:
Born in America, in Europe bred,
In Africa Travelled, in Asia wed;
Where long he lived and tArived
And at London died.
Much good. some i'll. he did: 30 hopes all cven.
Aud his soul, through mercy, Il gonc to
Heaven.
Ycu that survive and read this tale take care
For this most certain event to prepare.
Where blcst in peace: the actions of the just
Smell sweet, and blossom in the silent dust.
Robert Kemp, a well-to-do farmer in
middle New York, bad the following lines
carved upon beautiful monument erect
ed to the memory OF his wife:
Once she was nina. =.
But now. o Lord. y
1her to Thee resign
And remain your obedicnE,
humble servant, Robert Kemp.
According to 4 respectable Ohio journal
the following epitaph may bs seen on
tombstone in a cemetery near Mansfield:
Under this sod.
And under these trco1
Laeth the bod
of Solomon Pease.
He is not in this hole.
but only his pod
He has sheiled out his soul
And went up to his God.
An equally lud crous inscription is found
IN the church yard OF St Mary's at Bur.
lingtou, n. j., as follows:
Here lies the body Of Mary Ann Lowder,
Who Died while drinking . seidlitz powder;
Called froH this world to her Heavenly rest
Because she did not wait till it erervcsced
The sculptor who cut the inscription that
appears on James Sifvey's tombstone in
the church-yard at Olean, n. T., was Ia
mentally ignorant Of the rules Of punctu-
alton, for he made 1t read rs follows:
To James siivsy accidentally shot BY he
brother as mark Of affection.
What sort Of matrimonial alliance must
Mr.. Dent of Winchester, have enjoyed,
that, as soon as his beloved spouse was
grassed over he would indits such flip
pant tcouplet as this to place over her grave:
Here lies the body o. Deborah Dent,
Who kicked up her heeae aud away she won't
An English correspondent of New York
journel says that in Acton, Cornwall,
there Is . particularly graphic description
ON tombstone Of how the late Mr.. Nor
ton ~:me to his end. 1t is expressed in
these words:
Here lies entombed one Rogor Morton,
Whose sudden death was early brought on;
Trying one day a corn to NOW on.
The razor slipped and cut bis toe OF
The toe, or rather what 1t grew to.
An Inflammation gu cikly few to;
The parts they took to mortifying,
And Roger Morton took TO dying.
In some epitaphs there is more sta!o0
than is absolutely necessary. For orinstance,
in the old Grantham burying ground We
ind:
John PaIfreymac. who is buried herss
Was aged four and twenty year;
And by his side his mother les.
Likewise his father when he dies
This is worthy OF place in the columns
OF humorous paper, but it was actually
sppesdei to the daath no ice of woman
who died in Monroe County, Pa, in 1878:
Some have children, some have none
She was the mother Of twenty-one.
This gem was actually printed in an East
Tennessee paper, headed, by request Of
friends" and was part Of an elaborate no.
tice: 'sShe lived life Of virtue and died Of
the cholera morbus, caused from eating
green fruit, In the hop, Of, blessed i'm
mortality, ct the early age Of thirteen
years, seven months and sixteen days
Reader, go thou AMI do Hks~dser