Tombstone Tuesday: Some curious Tombstones

On the headstone of a noted miser, is the following:

Here lies old Father Gripe, who never cried Jamsatis

T’would wake him did he know you read his tombstone gratis.

From a tombstone in England

Here lies William Smith, and what is somewhat rarish,

He was born, bred and hanged in this here parish.

An insription on a tombstone in East Tennessee reads:

She lived a life of virtue and died of the cholera mobus,

caused by eating green fruit, in the hope of a blessed immortality

at the early age of 21 years 7 months and 16 days.

Reader, go thou and do likewise

Donna R. Causey, resident of Alabama, was a teacher in the public school system for twenty years. When she retired, Donna found time to focus on her lifetime passion for historical writing. She developed the websites www.alabamapioneers and www.daysgoneby.me All her books can be purchased at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. She has authored numerous genealogy books. RIBBON OF LOVE: A Novel Of Colonial America (TAPESTRY OF LOVE) is her first novel in the Tapestry of Love about her family where she uses actual characters, facts, dates and places to create a story about life as it might have happened in colonial Virginia. Faith and Courage: Tapestry of Love (Volume 2) is the second book and the third FreeHearts: A Novel of Colonial America (Book 3 in the Tapestry of Love Series) Discordance: The Cottinghams (Volume 1) is the continuation of the story. . For a complete list of books, visit Donna R Causey