<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000'><P>In the Jacques Spur Cemetery in Idaho is a tombstone "Custer said the only good Indian was a dead Indian well (I forget the date) we made Custer a good white man).</P>
<P>This is a Native American Cemetery, many my ancestor's.</P>
<P>Glen Jones Portland<BR><BR><BR><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans@verizon.net><BR>To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><BR>Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 6:06:37 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific<BR>Subject: [or-roots] Browsing Old Cemeteries<BR><BR>I hope I can be forgiven for this one, it is sort of genealogy. Les<BR><BR><BR><BR>Browsing Old Cemeteries<BR><BR>A truly Happy Person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.<BR><BR>And, one who can enjoy browsing old cemeteries...<BR><BR>Some fascinating things on old tombstones!<BR><BR> <BR><BR>Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York :<BR><BR>Born 1903--Died 1942.<BR><BR>Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the<BR><BR>Car was on the way down. It was.<BR><BR>=============================<BR><BR>In a Thurmont, Maryland , cemetery:<BR><BR>Here lies an Atheist, all dressed up and no<BR><BR>Place to go.<BR><BR>=============================<BR><BR>On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in<BR><BR>East Dalhousie Cemetery , Nova Scotia :<BR><BR>Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102. Only The<BR><BR>Good Die Young.<BR><BR>=============================<BR><BR>In a London , England cemetery:<BR><BR>Here lies Ann Mann, Who lived an old maid<BR><BR>But died an old Mann. Dec. 8, 1767<BR><BR>=============================<BR><BR>In a Ribbesford, England , cemetery:<BR><BR>Anna Wallace<BR><BR>The children of Israel wanted bread, And<BR><BR>The Lord sent them manna. Clark Wallace<BR><BR>Wanted a wife, And the Devil sent him Anna.<BR><BR>===============================<BR><BR>In a Ruidoso, New Mexico , cemetery:<BR><BR>Here lies Johnny Yeast... Pardon him<BR><BR>For not rising.<BR><BR>===============================<BR><BR>In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania , cemetery:<BR><BR>Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake.<BR><BR>Stepped on the gas instead of the brake.<BR><BR>==============================<BR><BR>In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery:<BR><BR>Here lays The Kid.<BR><BR>We planted him raw.<BR><BR>He was quick on the trigger<BR><BR>But slow on the draw.<BR><BR>================================<BR><BR>A lawyer's epitaph in England :<BR><BR>Sir John Strange.<BR><BR>Here lies an honest lawyer,<BR><BR>And that is Strange.<BR><BR>=================================<BR><BR>John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne,<BR><BR>England , cemetery:<BR><BR>Reader, if cash thou art in want of any,<BR><BR>Dig 6 feet deep and thou wilt find a Penny.<BR><BR>==================================<BR><BR>In a cemetery in Hartscombe , England :<BR><BR>On the 22nd of June, Jonathan Fiddle went<BR><BR>Out of tune.<BR><BR>==================================<BR><BR>Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls ,<BR><BR>Vermont :<BR><BR>Here lies the body of our Anna,<BR><BR>Done to death by a banana.<BR><BR>It wasn't the fruit that laid her low,<BR><BR>But the skin of the thing that made her go.<BR><BR>==================================<BR><BR>On a grave from the 1880s in Nantucket ,<BR><BR>Massachusetts :<BR><BR>Under the sod and under the trees,<BR><BR>Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.<BR><BR>He is not here, there's only the pod.<BR><BR>Pease shelled out and went to God.<BR><BR>==================================<BR><BR>In a cemetery in England :<BR><BR>Remember man, as you walk by,<BR><BR>As you are now, so once was I<BR><BR>As I am now, so shall you be.<BR><BR>Remember this and follow me.<BR><BR>To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone:<BR><BR>To follow you I'll not consent.<BR><BR>Until I know which way you went.<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>or-roots mailing list<BR>or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<BR>http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots<BR></P></div></body></html>