Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Here are some interesting Epitaphs:

This epitaph adorns the grave of Ellen Shannon, twenty-six, of Girard, Pennsylvania:

Who was fatally burned

March 21, 1870

by the explosion of a lamp

filled with “R. E. Danforth’s

Non-Explosive

Burning Fluid

Epitaph of a dentist named John Brown:

Stranger! Approach this spot with gravity!

John Brown is filling his last cavity.

Inscribed on the tomb of Mel Blanc, creator of the cartoon characters Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig: That’s All, Folks!

On Benjamin Franklin's tomb:

The Body of B. Franklin, Printer

Like the Cover of an old Book

Its Contents torn out

And Stripped of its Lettering & Gilding

Lies here.

Food for Worms

For, it will as he believed appear once more

In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved

As believers in Jesus Christ our hope is not ‘That’s all Folks’ but the amazing truth that some day we will appear again in a more "elegant edition, corrected and improved"!

1 comment:

Tori said...

Jay - Does anyone know about your blog? Because it's cool and I just found it!!! So I just found out there is a place where all the Husker Fans watch the games in Seattle!!! Isn't that awesome!!! Even the waiters & waitresses wear Husker Gear!!!!!! Thanks again for flying Tami out! It was the best!