Show dripping pan on tombstone 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 tol lowing curious lines however are to be found in Woo ditton churchyard near isea market england and let into the head of the stone Is a dripping pan to the n emory of W II 11 am simonds who d ed march 1 17 3 aged 80 years here 1 es my corpse who was tl e man thit loved i sop in cripp ng pan but now bel eve me I 1 an see here the pan stands at my head still for sop to the last I 1 cried but could not eat and so I 1 died my ne ghiors they perhaps may baigh now they do read my epitaph |