Epitaphs

FOUND ON HEADSTONES IN THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI


Harry Edsel Smith of Sandersville, Mississippi:
Born 1903-Died 1942
Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the
car was on the way down. It was.

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In a Soso, Mississippi cemetery:

Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up
And no place to go.

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In a Laurel, Miss. cemetery:

Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann.
Dec. 8, 1867

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In a Cracker's Neck, Mississippi cemetery:

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

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In an Errata Mississippi cemetery:

Here lies Johnny Yeast.
Pardon me
For not rising.

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In an Ellisville Mississippi cemetery:

Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake.
Stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake

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In a Sharon, Mississippi cemetery:

Here lays Conn Welborn.
We planted him raw.
Quick on the trigger
But slow on the draw.

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A lawyer's epitaph in Laurel, Mississippi:

John Strange.
Here lies an honest lawyer,
And that is Strange.
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John Penny's epitaph in Jones County, Mississippi, cemetery:

Reader, if cash you are
In need of any,
Dig 6 feet deep;
You'll find a Penny.
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In a cemetery in Hawkes, Mississippi:

On the 22nd of June,
Jonathan Fiddle
Went out of tune.
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Anna Hopewell's grave in 6-deep Cemetery, North Jones County, Mississippi

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.

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On a grave from the 1880s in Moselle, Mississippi

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

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In a cemetery in Tucker's Crossing, Mississippi:

Remember now, as you pass by,
Like you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, you soon will be.
Prepare yourself to follow me.
To which someone replied by scribbling on the tombstone:
To follow you I won't consent
Till I know which way you went

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In the Moore Family cemetery, Shady Grove Mississippi;

Here lies Lester Moore
One slug from a 44
No Les
No More
1944