Grave Sayings

Sir John Strange
Here Lies an honest lawyer,
And that is strange.


I was somebody
Who, is no business
Of yours.


The children of Israel wanted bread,
 and the Lord sent them manna,
Old clerk Watson wanted a wife,
And the Devil sent him Anna.


Gone away,
Owin' more
than he could pay.


Under the sod and under the trees,
Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
He is not here, there's only the pod;
Pease shelled out and went to god.


Anna Hopewell

Here lies the body of our Anna
Done to death by a banana
It wasn't the fruit that laid her low
But the skin of the thing that made her go.


She was not smart
She was not fair
But hearts with grief
for her are swellin';
All empty stands
her little chair:
She died of eatin'
Water-mellon


He got a fish bone in his throat
and then he sang an angel note.


Rebecca Freeland

She drank good ale,
good punch and wine
And lived to the age of 99.


Here lies Johnny Yeast
Pardon me for not rising.


Here lies Ann Mann
Who lived an old maid
But diesd and old man



John Penny's  epitaph
Reader if cash thou art
In want of any
Dig 4 feet deep
And thou wilt find a Penny



Owen Moore
Gone away owin' more
Than he could pay.


Here lies Lester Moore
Four slugs
From a forty-four
No les
No more




Here lies my wife,
I bid her Good-bye
She rests in Peace
And now to do I


Good friend for Jesus sake for beware,
To dig the dust enclosed heare!
Blest be the man that spares those stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones


Here lies the body of Martha Dias,
Who was always uneasy, and not over pious;
She lived to the age of three score and ten,
And gave that to the worms she refused to men.