Memorials

[Wildbilly]

Benjamin Franklin passes away

on this day 226 years ago, age 85.

Franklin penned his own mock epitaph 62 years earlier:

The Body of
B. Franklin
Printer;
Like the Cover of an old Book,
Its Contents torn out,
And stript of its Lettering and Gilding,
Lies here, Food for Worms.
But the Work shall not be whlly lost:
For it will, as he believ'd, appear once more,
In a new & more perfect Edition,
Corrected and Amended
By the Author.
He was born on January 6, 1706.
Died 17

Benjamin Franklin's Funeral and Grave
http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/philadelphia/grave.htm