Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1906 — A Curions Epitaph. [ARTICLE]

A Curions Epitaph.

One frequently comes across curious epitaphs, but we have never before heard of that useful and necessary kitchen requisite, the “dripping pan,” figuring upon a tombstone. The following curious lines, however, are to be found In Woodltton churchyard, near Newmarket, and let into the head of the stone Is a dripping pan: To the Memory of William Simonds, who died March 1, 1753. Aged eighty years. Here lies my corpse who was the man That loved a sop In dripping pan But now believe me I am dead See here the pan stands at my head Still for sop to the last I cried But could not eat and eo I died My neighbors they perhaps may laugh Now they do read mjr epitaph. —Westminster Gazette.