By Linus Joseph Dewald Jr., Editor
Fall 2006 and Revised 26 Jul 2006
We found the following in Myrna Vanderpool Gormley's "RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 26 July 2006, Vol. 9, No. 30, 7. Humor/Humour: Tales from the Grave"
NEED DIRECTIONS
I found this small item in a newspaper when researching for material for
a local history book called "Tregoney Happenings," which I recently
published. [Editor's note: See Book Notes, Section 1a.]
Royal Cornwall Gazette -- 20th Aug 1919 -- A Tregoney Epitaph.
Our Tregoney correspondent sent the following inscription from a stone
in the churchyard:
Some years ago an old Hart House scholar (local private school)
pencilled in the following underneath the inscription:
Weep not for me you standers by,
As you are now so once was I;
As I am now so must you be,
So prepare for death and follow me.
To follow you is not my intent,
For I do not know which way you went.
Previously published in RootsWeb Review: 26 July 2006, Vol. 9, No. 30.
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