Humorous Tombstone Inscriptions

Cemeteries can hold their share of humor. Here are some inscriptions from tombstones around the world that are valuable for both their genealogical and comedic information.

• Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York:
  Born 1903--Died 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.
• On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia:
  Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102.
  Only The Good Die Young.
• In a London, England cemetery:
  Here lies Ann Mann, Who lived an old maid
  but died an old Mann. Dec. 8, 1767
• 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.
• In a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery:
  Here lies Johnny Yeast
  Pardon him for not rising.
• In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania, cemetery:
  Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake.
  Stepped on the gas instead of the brake.
• In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery:
  Here lays The Kid.
  We planted him raw.
  He was quick on the trigger
  But slow on the draw.
• A lawyer's epitaph in England:
  Sir John Strange.
  Here lies an honest lawyer, and that is Strange.
• John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery:
  Reader, if cash thou art in want of any,
  Dig 6 feet deep and thou wilt find a Penny.
• In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England:
  On the 22nd of June,
  Jonathan Fiddle went out of tune.
• Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont:
  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.
• On a grave from the 1880s 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.
• In a cemetery in England:
  Remember man, as you walk by,
  As you are now, so once was I
  As I am now, so shall you be.
  Remember this and follow me.
  To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone:
  To follow you I'll not consent.
  Until I know which way you went.