FWC								EPIT.DOC

			   ASSORTED EPITAPHS  

	Ezekial Aikle, East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia
	"Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102. The Good Die Young"

	Abe Bell, Boston, Massachusetts (manufactured fireworks)
	"Gone to the only place where his own works are excelled."

	Jonathan Blake. Uniontown, Pennsylvania
	"Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
	Stepped on the gas pedal Instead of the brake."

	Eldredge Chester. D 1781, Age 24. Old Groton Cemetery, Conn.
	 (Died Dec. 31, 1781 of wounds suffered at Ft. Groton Massacre)
	"Relentless was my Fate, Death's weapons through me went.
	 Fell by the fatal blow, lingered till Life was Spent."

	Robert Coombs (Thames Bargeman) Brompton Cemetery, London
	"Farewell my trim-built wherry, oars, coat and badge, farewell."

	Margaret Daniels, Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia
	"She always said her feet were killing her, but nobody believed her."

	Peter Daniels, Edinburgh Scotland
	"Beneath this stone a lump of clay, lies Uncle Peter Dan'els.
	Who early in the month of May, took off his winter flannels."

	Jonathan Fiddle, Hartscombe, England
	"On the 22nd of June, Jonathan Fiddle went out of tune"

	Mrs. Martha Ford, 1812. Age 71. North Branford, Conn.
        "Praises on tombs are trifles vainly spent.
	 A man's good name (is) his best Monument."			

	Miss Mary "Molly" Fowler. D 1792, Age 24. Milford, Conn.
	"Molly the pleasant in her day,	was suddenly seized and sent away.
 	 How soon she's ripe, how soon she's rotten.
	 Sent to her Grave and soon forgotten."

	 Lewis Merwin. D 1822, Age 28. Milford, Conn.
 	 "We know he was a lovely youth, indeed.
  	  But here he lies, the hungry worms to feed."

			 Samuel Wood. Anon.	
	       "Here lies Sam Wood, enclosed by wood,
		One Wood within another.
		While the outer wood is very good,
		We cannot praise the inner."

				Anon.
		"When I am dead and in my grave, 
	         And all my bones are rotten.
	         While reading this you'll think of me,
	         When I am long forgotten!"

				Anon.
	   "I was somebody. Who, is no business of yours!"

				Anon.
	   "He thought he had a call to greatness."

				Anon.
        "He thought he SHOULD HAVE HAD a call to greatness."

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