The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-11-25
Queer Inscriptions on Tomb
stones in Old Gravcyards
in the 6 lSt.


AS YOU are now SO once was I;
Prepare for death and follow me.
But besides the repetition Of variou
favorte epitaphs there are many orig
inal outbursts in these Pennsylvani
cemeteries For instance. in the prett
churchyard at Whitcmarsh. wher
members OF many wealthy suburban
families OF modern times repose, tn
grave OF John Barge who died in 1855
is marked by a stone which bears thi
stanza:
| Life Is n cheat
And always shows It:
/ thought so once,
And now | know It.
A few miles further west i'm tn,
cemetery of st. Johns Lutheran
church, Center Square, is this epitapf
the third line Of which doubtless was
gratifying to those he dealt with:
Farewell, my wife and children dear
I am not dead but sleeping here:
My debt are paid, my grave you sec
Wait but your time and follow me-
South of the Schuylkill river the
Vincent Baptist burying ground con-
tains a stone on which i'm raised let
tors appears this legend. probably die
tatcd by n family of loving children:
OUR PAPP"
Bucks county graveyards supply
several unusual epitaphs. stone IN
the cemetery at Morrisville is inscrib
ed thus:
In memory OF Samuel McCracken,
who died April 10, 1862.
If leading politicians and priests
All go to Heaven. then I am bound
TO stop at some other station.
McCracken made an agreement with
the cemetery association for the erec-
ton of this monument and then COM
mitted suicide by cutting his throat.
Beside McCracken rests his wife. and
the inscription on the stone at her
grave, i'm contrast with that on the
adjoining marker reads thus:
In memory of Phoebe, wife of
Samuel McCrackCn, who died
March 80 1860. She died firm
believer i'm Christ her Saviour.
A crude picture of horse kicking
a boy is the principal feature of a
tombstone in a cemetery near Doyles-
town, and beneath the carving are
these words:
Sacred to the memory of
Henry Harris, born Juno 27th,
1881. of Henry Davis and Jane,
his wife. Died on the 4th of
May 1891 by the kick of
colt in his bowels peaccablo
and quiet. A friend To his
Father and Mother and re-
spected by all who knew him
and went to the world where
horses can't kick and where
sorrow and weeping is no
more.
Taylor e. Schuck.
In the burial ground at the old Hill
town church, Bucks county, are five
I'm row. and the success
i've inscriptions begin thus:
Anna, wife of Tobias Brown.
Mary, wife of Tobias Brown.
Jane, wife of Tobias Brown.
Sarah, wife of TOBIAS Brown.
Tobias Brown--At Rest.
Even the solemn and serene ceme-
terry of the Moravians in Bethlehem |
supplies an interesting addition to the |
list of queer epitaphs in the following.
which is inscribed on a stone at an
Indians grave:
In memory OF my eldest son.
James Mcdonald Ross, eldest son
of John Ross. principal chief OF the
Cherokee Nation died i'm
st. Louis, Nov. 9th, 1864. His
corps transported by Adams Elk
press to Bethlehem and Inferred
at this sacred spot Nov. 22nd,
1864. aged so years, 20 days.
At historic Trinity church, in the
northern suburb OF Philadelphia, a
ombstone inscription recalls the early
trifc there between the Quakers and
he Episcopalians over the control Of
hat place of worship. 1t was founded
Is a Quaker meeting house, but early
n the eighteenth century IL passed in
o the possession OF the Episcopalians.
no epllhpil' udteu lfoo' TcduS tHuS' |
Hereby these lines IN testified
No Quaker was she when she dy'd;
10 far was she from Quakcrism,
That she desired TO have baptism
'or her own babes and children dear 4
To these lines true witness hear.
The efforts of an eighteenth century ,
unster are apparent in German
pitaph In Hoods cemetery. German
Dwn. Those not conversant with |
;erman of course need an cxplana
ion that the German word Frey" Is :
quivalent TO free" The cptaph Is ,
l. the grave of Johannes Frey and
oncludes with this stanza:
Ich war der Frey. doch bin
Ich hier erst Frey Worden.
Lebt Sunden Frey. so kommst !
Du auch in meinen Orden. q
Translated the stanza would read: [
I was called Free. but here for the 7
rst time I am really free. IF you 4
iii live free from sin you shall be c
$ free as I am" q
Something New In Sport.
A football match on roller skates
las been played at the Ipswich .
E,o po1aoa rfnL