There is a monument in Hampstead, Long Island, erected 1 to the members oi a shipwrecked crew who were drowned off Far Rockaway one stormy night. On three sides of the monument are ordinary inscriptions. On the fourth appears the best bit of humor ever found on a gravestone. It reads as follows: —“This monument was erected by the humane people of Queen’s County to the memory of .the shipwrecked crew—out of the money found on the bodies of the \deceased. ’ ’
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3376, 17 November 1911, Page 5
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81Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3376, 17 November 1911, Page 5
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