In a cemetery in Ribbesford, England, this epitaph was found on the tombstone of one Anna Wallace: "The children of Israel wanted bread /And the Lord sent them manna,

Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife, And the Devil sent him Anna."

A widow wrote this epitaph in a Vermont cemetery:

"Sacred to the memory of /my husband John Barnes /who died January 3, 1803

His comely young widow, aged 23, has /many qualifications of a good wife, and /yearns to be comforted."

A woman wrote in to a Minnesota newspaper to tell of an unusual funeral she attended. A prominent woman in the community had died. Crowds of people filled the church for her memorial service. At one point in the service, the pastor planned to play a record of the classic song, "Wind Beneath My Wings." But the pastor's assistant accide…