(Excerpts transcribed from The Eagle, Lovan, Alabama October 28, 1899, African-American newspaper) ON THE MAINE Colored Casualties on the Maine The following Negroes lost their life in the Maine disaster: George Johnson, John T. Adams, Daniel Lewis, Noble T. Mudd, Washington, D. C.: Charles Anderson, Norfolk, Va.; Alfred Simmons, Portsmouth, Va.; William Lambert, Hampton, Va.; […]
Funny gravestones: Epitaph of a noted politician: “Here reader, turn your weeping eyes, My fate a useful moral teaches; The hole in which my body lies Would not contain one-half my speeches.” 1843 Epitaph of London grocer, named John Hall who was quite fond of puns: “Here lies the remains of JOHN HALL, grocer, […]
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