THINGS I LEARNED WITH AGE Learned to pick my battles, - “Will this matter one year from now? How about one month: One week? One…
These are excerpts of actual correspondence received by the Family History Department of the LDS Church in Utah. So funny! Our 2nd great-grandfather was found dead crossing…
Some Funny Tombstones - Grave marker in Covington, Virginia "I made a lot of deals in my lifetime ... But I sure went in…
Sometimes it is funny seeing life through the eyes of a child. A little boy opened the big and old family Bible with fascination,…
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…
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…
I always enjoy the beautiful dogwoods, azaleas, and daffodils in my yard in the spring, but worry each year that we might have a “blackberry winter,"…
From an 1881 newspaper: Rules for Governing children: Never give in to disobedience, and never threaten what you are not prepared to carry out.…
Anyone who has lived in the south knows about chigger bites. Here are some home remedies from a 1930's cookbook. Rub chigger bites with…
A Legal Gift If a man would, according to law, give to another an orange, instead of saying, "I give you this orange "which one…
The following are actual copies of correspondence received by the Family History Department. I have a hard time finding myself in London. If I were…
From the perfect Woman 1903 by K. T. Boland EARLY TO BED AND EARLY TO RISE Early rising cannot be too strongly insisted upon;…
Some funny, clean stories stand the test of time like these: A little girl wanted to say that she had a fan, but had…
PATRON + FUNNY FRIDAY: This is hilarious! But I imagine it was true. . . A prominent physician of Baltimore tells of an amusing…
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…
Humorous Tombstones Catholic Cemetery, La Pointe, Wisconsin: To the Memory of Abraham Beaulieu Born 18 September 1822 Accidentally shot 4th April 1844 As a…
A GEORGIA WEDDING A Georgia paper got a wedding notice and advertisement of auction sale mixed, and this is the way it appeared in…
While transcribing records from old newspapers, I frequently run across some great gems of wisdom and humor like below: From a 1908 newspaper Someone…
Two humorous tombstones from the west explain a lot. Cripple Creek, Colorado, A man killed by a rattlesnake “Within this grave There lies poor…
These epitaphs reveal some unusual ways people died. Here lies entombed one Roger Morton, Whose sudden death was early brouoght on; Trying one day…
These epitaphs on tombstones reveal that the husband must have died last since he had the last word. Within this grave do lie Back…
The Black Sheep The children of a prominent family chose to give the patriarch a book of their family's history. The biographer they hired…
A Genealogy Nightmare My daughter never married but she's lived with Joe, so long,And they and the kids are so happy that somehow, it…
The people in the South have always had an interesting way of turning a phrase. These are some I remember. Can you think of…
Making hay while the sun shines by Shannon Hollon Growing up on Rural Route 2 Box 49x in McCalla there were not a lot…
Some Funny Tombstones for Animals Epitaph on wooden cross over grave of a cow in North Carolina "Here lies Bossy, a cow who gave…
SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE . . . The opinions now held by physicians that “raw cow's milk is better for children than boiled” is…
On a tombstone in Grafton, Vt.: Gone home below. ---- Here lies Bernard Lightfoot who was accidentally killed in his forty fifth year. Erected…
In a New York churchyard: We shall miss thee, mother. (Good job printing neatly done) ----- Here lies Jane Smith, Wife of Thomas…
The following is from a 1903 book The Perfect Woman, on how to avoid wrinkles on your face. I wished it worked. “Mme Pote…
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