The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-23
GRAVEYARD GOSSIP FROM
YANKEE TOMBSTONES

GRAVEYARD nterature-often eloquent
usually pathetic. sometimes sarcastlc. tll-
grammatical or humorous-ls N.aSS 81
itself Even though we admire me lSS -
ing that prompts grandlioqdent on, aii9
IaSldatory eDitaphs we cannot Wltnhoiu
our sympathy from the truth-lONei VIM
had placed on a graYestone;
Here lie the dead
And here the living lie
England burial spots have been explored
BY seekers for queer ana qndlnt epIs,ei
and our own land has not been mcgee ' i
entirely Yet the following. coIleDlr ,l,,l "
one who has fad for such Things. proves
that the field still is rich and mas Amply
rewarded the Searcher. -.
In the quiet churchyaTdS Of Conneclleut
are many old tombstOnes INSCRIBED M MIL
homeIy verses and quaint records MS
one is from Lyme, Conn.,
Reynold9 Marvin.
This Deacon. aged IS.
Is free on Earth from sarVlng
May for a Crown no longer wait
Lyme's Captain Reyneld Marvin
Near New Haven is the subjoined;
This tombstone is a milestone, and why so?
Because beneath lies Miles-he's Miles be-
A little man he was, a dwarf in size,
Yet now stretched out at least miles long
he lies.
This grave, tho small contains space
There's Miles in length and breadth and
room besides.
stanZa:
Here lies Thomas HuddlestOne- Reader
don't smile.
But reflect, as this tombstone you view,
That Death. who killed him, IN a very
short while
Will huddle a stone upon you
In a cemetery near New London is lot
containing i've graves, one in the center,
the others nearby at the four points OF
the compass. The inscriptions on the lal--
ter are respectively, after the names OF
the dead:
My L Wife.
Ny II. Wife.
Nv III Wife.
My I'LL Wife.
and the center stone bears the brief in
Our Husband
In a Giulford graveyard an Inscription
on a monument over Yale graduate
reads:
Cad Peck
BY God
This IS not the spirit of irreverence, but
means near 20 or with the Almighty-a
term often used in Olden times.
In Lefyard. over the grave of man
who tried three times to commit suicide,
is the following:
He Died an Honest Death
Caesar the Ethiopian sleeps his last
sleep in AttleborOugh, Mass, in pot
near the old road from Boston TO Provi-
| dence. In stage coach days many pas
! sengerS aVailed themselves Of the OD-
! portunity to gaze upon his resting place
/ while the coach horses We're being
/ changed. and read this eloquent epltaph;
Here Hest. the beso OF slaves.
Now turning into dust
! Caesar the Ethiopian Graves
A place among the just
! His faithful soul is fed
To realms OF Heaven Light.
And by the blood that Jesus shed
Is changed from black 10 white.
January 18th he quilted this stage,
/ In the nth year of his age
( 17S0.
When the old Presbyterian church il
! Jamaica, L. l., was demolished in 1873 q
stone bearing the following was IN
earthed:
Here I lie outside the church door.
( Here | lie because I'm poor
/ The further in the more they pay,
( But here | lie as snug as they
On a slab in an old churchvard in Cen
I trail Massachusetts is this epitaph:
To the Memory of
Ann Sophia
and
/ Julia Hattie
/ His Two Wives.
This Stone is Erected by their
Grateful WidOwer.
They Made Home Pleasant.
J In the Island cemetery, Newport R. L
/ are many quaint epitaphs. Here is one
The Human Form Respected for Its
! Honesty and Known for
/ 50 Years
| by the AppeIlation of
| Christopher EllerV
! Began to Dissolve in the Month
Of February, 17S9.
| Another IS in dOlef11{ rb1-roe-