SHILOH METHODIST CEMETERY

HE SOWED, OTHERS REAPED
 
 
I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT NOW
 
 
ONCE I WASN'T...THEN I WAS...NOW I AIN'T AGIAN
 
 
DOCTOR:   OFFICE UPSTAIRS
 
 
SALESMAN:  MY TRIP IS OVER,  SEND MY SAMPLES HOME
 
 
YOU HAVE TO HELP PEOPLE WHEN THEY NEED HELP
 
 
LAWYER:   THE DEFENSE RESTS
 
 
HE LIES JOHNNY YEAST...PARDON ME FOR NOT RISING
 
 
"DID YA BRING A BEER?"
 
 
STRANGER PAUSE AS YOU PASS BY
 AS YOU ARE NOW SO ONCE WAS I..
AS I AM NOW SO YOU WILL BE
KNEEL AND SAY A PRAYER FOR ME
 
 
 
TEACHER:   SCHOOL IS OUT, HAS GONE HOME
 
 
 
STOP, READER, PRAY AND READ MY GATE
WHAT CAUSED MY LIFE TO TERMINATE
FOR THIEVES BY NIGHT WHEN IN MY BED
 BROKE IN MY HOUSE AND SHOT ME DEAD
 
 
WHAT IS IT LIKE AFTER YOU ARE DEAD ?  
 LIKE IT WAS BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
 AND FOR JUST AS LONG ?
 
 
ON THE 22nd OF JUNE
 JONATHAN FIDDLE
 WENT OUT OF TUNE
 
 
SH-H-H-H
 
 
DENTIST BROWN:   FILLING HIS LAST CAVITY
 
 
TEARS CANNOT RESTORE HER
THERFORE I WEEP
 
 
HERE LIES THE FATHER OF 29
 HE WOULD HAVE HAD MORE
 BUT HE DIDN'T HAVE TIME
 
 
SHE LIVED WITH HER HUSBAND
 FOR 50 YEARS AND DIED IN THE
 CONFIDENT HOPE OF A BETTER LIFE
 
 
IF YOU "LIVED HERE", YOU WOULD BE HOME NOW
 
 
GRIM DEATH TOOK HIM WITHOUT ANY WARNING
 HE WAS WELL AT NIGHT AND DEAD IN THE MORNING
 
 
ROSIE PIGG:   SHE WAS A POOR  PIGG
 BUT SHE BOUGHT THE FARM
 
 
HERE LIES JANE SMITH, WIFE OF THOMAS SMITH
 MARBLE CUTTER...THIS MONUMENT ERECTED BY
HER HUSBAND AS A TRIBUTE TO HER MEMORY
MONUMENTS OF THIS STYLE ARE 250.00 DOLLARS
 
 
WIFE'S HEADSTONE NEXT TO HUSBAND'S:  
TO FOLLOW YOU I AM NOT CONTENT
 HOW DO I KNOW WHICH WAY YOU WENT
 
 
HERE BENEATH THIS STONE WE LIE
 BACK TO BACK MY WIFE AND I
AND WHEN THE ANGELS TRUMP SHALL TRILL
 IF SHE GETS UP THEN I'LL LIE STILL
 
 
THIS SPOT IS THE SWEETEST I'VE SEEN IN MY LIFE
 FOR IT RAISES FLOWERS AND COVERS MY WIFE
 
 
INFANT EIGHT MONTHS:  
 SINCE I HAVE BEEN SO QUICKLY DONE FOR
 I WONDER WHAT I WAS BEGUN FOR
 
 
LAWYER JOHN STRANGE:  
 HERE LIES A HONEST LAWYER
 AND THAT'S STRANGE
 
 
HERE LIES MY WIFE, LET HER LIE,
NOW SHE'S AT REST, AND SO AM I
 
 
HERE BENEATH THIS PILE OF STONES
LIES ALL THAT'S LEFT OF SALLY JONES
HER NAME WAS SMITH, NOT JONES
 BUT JONES WAS USED TO RHYME WITH STONES
 
 
I MADE ALOT OF GOOD DEALS IN MY LIFETIME
 BUT I SURE WENT INTO THE HOLE ON THIS ONE
 
 
TIME WAS I STOOD WHERE THOU DOST NOW
 AND VIEWED THE DEAD AS THOU DOST ME
FORE LONG YOU'LL BE AS LOW AS ME
 AND OTHERS WILL STAND AND GAZE AT THEE
 
THANKS FOR STOPPING BY