Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-23


Poet laureate Shelton had this writ
ten ut Queen Elizabeth's death; it is
seen mt st. Mary, le-B Bow.
Fame, blow aloud, md to tho world pro-
claim
There never ruled such royal dame:
Tho Word of God was ever her delight
In it sho meditated day and night.
Spain's rod Homes ruin, Netherlands re-
lief,
Earth's joy, England's gen,, worlds wonder,
natures chief.
She was and is, what can there moro BIO
On earth the chief, in Heay'n tho second
maid
Benjamin Franklin's body was buried
beside his wifo's in Christ Churchyard.
Philadelphia. He wrote this epitaph
for himself when he was twenty three
years old:
Tho Body of Benja Franklin, printer
llIike the cover OF an old Book It's c0ntcnts
torn out and stripped of its lettering md
gildfRgA, Lies hero, food for worms.
Yet the work Itself, shall not DO lost. For 1t
will, as no believed, appear oncS' more, In q
new and more beautiful edition, con sctol
and amended by the author.
This tells the story of-a brewer:
Poor John Scott lies buried here;
Tho once he had both hale aud stout,
Death stretched him on his bitter BIER
In another world he hops about.
Tho Duke of Norfolk in Richard
Sheridan's time was great whist play
er, and upon his death Sheridan wrote:
Here lies England's premier baron
Patiently awaiting the last trump.
A Dunkirle family ordered the in
CO. Iat hnr In,
the tomb of one recently departed. But
the lettering artist found that he did not
have room for the entire sentence, SO he
abbreviated in this manner: ',Let her
r. j. p"
This is the kind of funeral literature
they used to use in California:
Here lies tho body of Jeemes Humbrick,
who was accidentally shot on the bauk of the
Pacus River by a young man. he was ncci-
dentally shot with ono of the large Colts re-
volvers with no stopper for the cock to rest
on. 1t was one OF the old-fashionel kind
brass-mounted. And of Such is tho kingdom
OF heaven.
Thomas Smith was sculptor and
keen business man. He cut this in his
wife's tomb:
Here lies Jane Smith. wife OF Thomas
OIulCll, uldIUlo CuslcI. 1ulS ulOuuubnU WAS
erected by her husband as a tribute to her
memory and specimen OF his work. Monu-
ments of the same style, $3.50.
This illogical jingle comes from
Cornwall, England
Father and mother aud
Lie buried here asunder;
Father and mother lie buried hero,
And lie buried Off yonder.
There seems to be very little doubt
about Robt. q. Wright's death. He
was killed near Appomatox Court
House, Va:
ROBT. G. WRIGHT
Was Born June 26th, 1772,
Died July %, 1915.
By the bloodthirsty hand OF John Sweeney,
Sr., who was massacre with the Nife, then
q London Gun discharge ball penetrate the
Heart. which gave the immortal wound.
This lay is dedicated to suicide:
He never won immortal fame
Nor conquered earthly ills,
Yet men weep for him all the same
He always paid his bills.
Henry Wang was born near Phila-
delphia, December 81, 1929, and, be-
coming discouraged with his surround
ipgs, he lived only half an hour. John
Wang, his father, wrote.
A short-lived Joy
Was our little boy;
>He has gone on high,
30 don't cry.
The Rev. Michael McCullock, D. D.,
of Boutwell, Q767-180D, wanted his
friend, the Rev. Thomas Brisbane, of
Dunlop, to write his epitaph. This is
what he got:
Hero lies inferred beneath this sod
That sycophantlsh man Of God
Who taught an easy way to heaven,
Which to the rich was always given;
IL he gets In he'll look and stare
To find some one he put there.
This statement is unverited
She was married twenty-four years. and
in all that time never once banged the door.
The following mark of esteem is as
tcrse as it is ambiguous. 1t is found in
Grafton, Vt.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. '..............s....
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