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FUNNY EPITAPHS When the great judgement day arrives and Joshua Fenton Newton does not emerge from this hole, you will know that someone made…
Household hints from the past: By dipping a new broom in hot salt water before using, will toughen the bristles and make it last…
It seems like such a short time ago when...... A computer was something on TV from a science fiction show of note.... A window was…
Graves side by side in an old cemetery in the west. This must have been quite a shoot-out! “Thomas Hart Killed by Frank Teague”…
While transcribing records from old newspapers, I frequently run across some great gems of wisdom and humor like below: From an 1908 newspaper Some…
Funny gravestones: Epitaph of a noted politician: "Here reader, turn your weeping eyes, My fate a useful moral teaches; The hole in which my…
A GEORGIA WEDDING A Georgia paper got a wedding notice and advertisement of auction sale mixed, and this is the way it appeared in…
From an 1881 newspaper: Rules for Governing children: Never give in to disobedience, and never threaten what you are not prepared to carry out.…
SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE . . . The opinions now held by physicians that “raw cow's milk is better for children than boiled” is…
SCROLL DOWN TO READ STORY From the perfect Woman 1903 by K. T. Boland EARLY TO BED AND EARLY TO RISE Early rising cannot…
Some Funny Tombstones - Grave marker in Covington, Virginia "I made a lot of deals in my lifetime ... But I sure went in…
Some Genealogy Humor I'd rather be looking for dead people than have them looking for me! I'm searching for myself; Have you seen me?…
Some Family tree humor.... I looked at my family tree...there were two dogs using it. I'd rather be looking for dead people than have them…
Two men were walking home after a party and decided to take a shortcut through the cemetery just for laughs. Right in the middle of the…
Times were hard after the Civil War, but people still kept their sense of humor. Here are some humorous and ridiculous tips for life…
Sometimes it is funny seeing life through the eyes of a child. A little boy opened the big and old family Bible with fascination,…
Patron+ Member story The following is from a 1903 book The Perfect Woman, on how to avoid wrinkles on your face. I wished it…
Here are some suggestions of how to keep well from an 1880's cookbook on keeping well. Some of these could apply today. Don't sleep…
Miscellaneous items from 1872 newspaper reveal humor of the day A GENTLEMAN In London lately, in making a return of his income to the…
These are some home remedies for common ailments from 1880 cookbook! I'm glad I'm living in this century. Nervous spasms are usually relieved by a…
Speech and Voice Are Important Points by Olive Roberts Barton From Tuscaloosa News, Aug 2, 1937 When our children grow up, we want them…
Humorous Tombstones Catholic Cemetery, La Pointe, Wisconsin: To the Memory of Abraham Beaulieu Born 18 September 1822 Accidentally shot 4th April 1844 As a…
Did you know? In Montgomery, Alabama it is considered an offense to open an umbrella on a street, for fear of spooking horses? In Lee…
Humor is timeless as these two anecdotes from 1883 newspaper reveal. (Excerpts from The Shelby Chronicle, Columbiana, Alabama, Nov. 22, 1883) Brilliant trade? "Doctor,"…
Two humorous tombstones from the west Cripple Creek, Colorado, A man killed by a rattlesnake “Within this grave There lies poor Andy; Bit by…
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In a small southern town there was a "Nativity Scene" that showed great skill and talent had gone into creating it. One small feature…
JUST LIKE MINE By Joyce Ray Wheeler We were so young in 1953 when my husband became a mathematics professor at Howard College…
Patron+ member story Over the river and through the wood - Hurrah for Thanksgiving Day! Here is the origin of this old poem. Scroll…
These epitaphs on tombstones reveal that the husband must have died last since he had the last word. Within this grave do lie Back…
