At Edinburgh:
"John Mc pherson
Was a wonderful person
He stood 6 ft 2 without his shoe
And he was slew.
At Waterloo."
One John Round was lost at sea, and in the grave-yard of his native place a stone was erected with the following couplet inscribed thereon:
"Under this bed lies John Round
Who was lost at sea and never found."
In an old church-yard in Ireland:
"Here lies John Highley whose father and mother were drownded on their passage to America. Had they lived they would have been buried here."
In a church-yard in Ohio:
"Under this sod
And under these trees
Lieth the Bod
Y of Solomon Pease.
He's not in this hole
But only his pod.
He shelled out his soul
And went up to his God."
From a tombstone in Cornwall, England:
"Father and mother and I
Lie buried here asunder;
Father and mother lie buried here,
And I lie buried yonder."