The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-07-18
EPlTAPHS.
Ru prnf Ambrose S OtteY.

itaphs are given by the Professor for
the benefit Of our readers.
In a graveyard at Pomfret Con-
necticut, Is:
81 here bid ye empty
World adleu
My dearest friends
And so must you. "
In New Britain, Connecticut:
"Now am old and out OF mind,
Upon this stone my name you'll
find,
And when my name you plainly see.
You can no less than think of me.
In Hills dale, New York;
"Slcep on, Sleep on my love
Sleep ON my love for you are my
turtle dove.
Nv dear wife and children don't you
mourn for me,
Heaven is my throle and earth IS
my footstool.
In pittsheld, Massachusetts
"Whcn you my friends are passing
by,
And this informs you where | lie,
Remember you ere long must have,
Like me a mansion in the grave,
Also three infants, . sons and q
daug hter.
In a cemetery at South Vernon,
n. H., you will find the following up.
on gravestone there
Oh, be she went and am she gone,
And left poor here all alone:
oh cruel fate to be so blind,
10 take she fore and leave hind?
Her can never come back to we,
But us must surely 60 to she.
In the graveyard of Christ Episco-
pal Church of Alexandria, Va, | saw
this inscription on tombstone
''Remember man that passeth by,
As thou is now SO once was !;
And as | am SO mus thou be,
Prepare thyself to follow me.
Under this inscription some one
wrote:
"To follow you is not my intent,
Unless Iknew which way you went.
In Chidwald churchyard, England:
"Hcrc lies me and my three daugh-
terS,
Brought here by using Seidlitz wa
ters;
If We had stuck to Epson salts,
We wouldn't have been iu this
vault
An old farmer died, the funeral
being over the widow decided to have
a tombstone that should do credit to
both to the deceased and herself. To
the local stone mason she explained
her wishes: 81 don't want nothing
out of the way, but handsome and
simple like this;
William Wilson
Hicd Oct. 4, 1896,
Aged s..
"Thc good die young
In the Bethel cemetery. Brandy.
wine hcndred, may be seen four tomb.
stones, in row, with the father S
name, Dr. Phineas Price, and his
three sons all of the same name on
them. 1t was Gus tomary in old Bib.
ical times TO have two or three boys
in the same family OF the same name
In the above case as the first boy
died, the second was called the same
and he died and the third also. All
dying before the father.
In a graveyard in Delaware County
there was put on tombstone this
inscription by the deceased husband:
"Somc women have children,
Some have none:
But here lies the mother Of twenty =
one"
| After the husband died the chill
drcn living had the verse cut OIL by a
marble cutter.
They have queer stone cutter in
Maine. Deacon Hackctt lost his
secon' wife lately, a scrawny and
shewish woman, whose loss was not
an unmxed sorrow. Still the dea-
con dutifully decided to give her a
monument. Being rather "near' he
hagglcd with the village stone cutter
as to the size of the slab and finally
chose very narrow one at a bargain
The inscription was to De as follows:
SARAH HACKETT
"I.ord she was thine
But the stone was so narrow that
there was no room for the last letter
so the stone cutter LETT it out, with
this result:
SARAH HACKETT,
"Lord she was thin. ~