Memento Mori

A parishioner sent me these: Some clever things on old tombstones.

Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, NY

1903 - 1942

Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down.

It was.

In a Thurmont, Maryland cemetery:

Here lies an Atheist.

All dressed up and no place to go.

In a London cemetery:

Here lies Anne Mann.

She lived an old maid but died an old Mann.

In a Ribbesford, England cemetery:

Anna Wallace

The children of Israel wanted bread,

And the Lord sent them manna.

Clark Wallace wanted a wife,

And the devil sent him Anna.

On a grave in Nantucket, Massachusetts:

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.