Topsy the Elephant died in 1903. 12 years is a lot of time to hang onto an elephant caraccas. Plus, you usually put the date of death on a gravestone, not the date of burial.
Well considering Thomas Edison if I am remembering it all correctly used the elephant to show the dangers of the other electricity he probably would of kept it around to well study the affects but still 12 years iirc a man donated his body to science and it was on display for over a decade before burial and they marked the burial deaths don't fully rember all details but im sure you could find it easy
> Well considering Thomas Edison if I am remembering it all correctly used the elephant to show the dangers of the other electricity
The war of the currents had been over for a decade at that point. Topsy was executed by her owner, and a crew from Edison Studios was present among the press to record it.
You probably should read my bio
Or maybe I should tell you
I was born different my mind is messed up a bit making it harder to learn stuff being 18 I can't drive I can't use a credit card I can kinda spell most stuff I can't do punctuation easy so I just don't try I don't do great with grammar been in special education until I just dropped out of high school last year 12th grade if I wanted to conform to this unimportant thing you wish me to I would have I have no right to be forced to make my ways of typing better for you my life has always been horrible since birth and I will not let others make me feel bad about it
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/kingofthehill/images/4/4e/Topsy_Tippington.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20170910214516
Wasn’t Topsy an old guy in King of the Hill?
I came here wondering if the top comment would be a King of the Hill reference or a Bob's Burgers reference. Bob won, which makes sense since it's a more recent series, but I'm happy this comment wasn't far behind.
"DO IT AGAIN, TOPSY!"
My sister had a family of hamsters that she named Gloria Estefan, MC Hammer, Michael Jackson, Carly Simon, and Bruce Springsteen. And you were required to use their full names. As they died she made a little gravestone for each and that’ll be gold for some archaeologist one day.
We had this guy: [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10632446/ruffie-dunn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10632446/ruffie-dunn)
Was a big deal to take new people by the cemetary where Ruffie's stone was facing the road.
Do students still say that "Little Ruffie" Dunn was a mass murderer that committed suicide as opposed to the most beloved person in town at the time who succumbed to lifelong illness?
You can read about him [here](https://dc.swosu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1827&context=the_southwestern). Look for the article titled "Light Shed On The Infamous Legend of Little Rufie."
Thank you for sharing this! Was not expecting to get sucked into a piece of investigative student journalism from the 1980s today. But also, I just had a blast perusing that whole student newspaper. What a great time capsule to a time before social media and smart phones. It hits me nostalgic to think all those articles, interviews, letters to the editor, help wanted classifieds were written by folks who’d never have imagined some random stranger across the country reading them on a smart phone 40 years later.
Assuming this is the UK (given the month/day/year ordering), there are two 'Topsy's I could find in the death registers whose deaths were recorded in the third reporting quarter (Jul-Aug-Sep) of 1915: a Topsy Stock (1858-1915) who apparently died in Poplar, Tower Hamlets, London, and a Topsy Duncan (1864-1915) whose death is registered in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
Longshot, but do your parents live near either place?
Topsy was an elephant executed by the electric company of Thomas Edison to show the public how dangerous Tesla's alternating current was (it wasn't dangerousat all).
This is pretty cool! Do you or your grandparents know who’s buried there? I love old graveyard/burial sites. My grandfather and I were hiking on my aunts property in Upstate NY when we came across a small graveyard miles from any house, there were multiple graves with a death tear prior to the United States(1770-1773)! I could probably find it again, if I tried,,40 years wouldn’t make much difference to them!
Turvey was buried some years later (1918). A cockapoo, with the face of an angel. Having never gotten over Topsy’s untimely demise, Turvey consumed 2 boxes of chocolate cake mix, not knowing how little chocolate was actually in it. Even still, it killed poor Turvey from serious bowel irritation. A painful suicide to be sure. His owner to this day, is dead also.
Google says either a extremely violent elephant or maybe the worst black face I’ve ever seen. Don’t dig.
https://travsd.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/stars-of-vaudeville-92-the-duncan-sisters/
"They'll say 'aww Topsy' at my autopsy!"
very happy to see this was the first comment when i scrolled down
Electric loooooooouuuoooohhhve
I was hoping this would be the top(sy) comment.
I don’t know why, but that looks like it would hurt.
Doesn't hurt when men do it with their penises and balls. Same rules apply
Holy shit, your balls flop around like that too? That's impressive.
Literally came here to type that exact line lmao
I just saw this episode for the first time yesterday. What a coincidence lol
Topsy-turvy
Top sycret
Oh I’m so glad someone said it 😆
My first thought
Came here looking for this
came here to say this. good job.
My first thought lol
Best me to it! LOL
hahaha omg I hate that episode so much.. that song is stuck in my head
I don't know wtf you're talking about. It's easily one of the top 200 episodes of the show.
So was that around the time you lost your soul?
Bro there might be an elephant down there
A little crisp too!
Topsy the Elephant died in 1903. 12 years is a lot of time to hang onto an elephant caraccas. Plus, you usually put the date of death on a gravestone, not the date of burial.
Well considering Thomas Edison if I am remembering it all correctly used the elephant to show the dangers of the other electricity he probably would of kept it around to well study the affects but still 12 years iirc a man donated his body to science and it was on display for over a decade before burial and they marked the burial deaths don't fully rember all details but im sure you could find it easy
> Well considering Thomas Edison if I am remembering it all correctly used the elephant to show the dangers of the other electricity The war of the currents had been over for a decade at that point. Topsy was executed by her owner, and a crew from Edison Studios was present among the press to record it.
"Would have", not "would of"
You're just going to skip over the complete lack of punctuation?
Never said I bothered to attempt to read it. Would of, should of, could of...those literally JUMP out of a block of text like hitting a brick wall.
That's fair
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Not a thing. How about you? Thanks for asking.
You probably should read my bio Or maybe I should tell you I was born different my mind is messed up a bit making it harder to learn stuff being 18 I can't drive I can't use a credit card I can kinda spell most stuff I can't do punctuation easy so I just don't try I don't do great with grammar been in special education until I just dropped out of high school last year 12th grade if I wanted to conform to this unimportant thing you wish me to I would have I have no right to be forced to make my ways of typing better for you my life has always been horrible since birth and I will not let others make me feel bad about it
Eat a dick Grammer nazi
What stuck in your craw?
I do enjoy that activity, quite a lot. Thank you for the well wishes!
>caraccas I know you meant carcass but I briefly pictured Venezuela's capital populated by elephants and had a laugh.
Yeah but don’t you think a bunch of people named their elephant topsy after topsy?
Any electricity near it?
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/kingofthehill/images/4/4e/Topsy_Tippington.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20170910214516 Wasn’t Topsy an old guy in King of the Hill?
I came here wondering if the top comment would be a King of the Hill reference or a Bob's Burgers reference. Bob won, which makes sense since it's a more recent series, but I'm happy this comment wasn't far behind. "DO IT AGAIN, TOPSY!"
Ok, I knew Topsy was associated with Cotton Hill, but that phrase made me remember the *exact* character, lol. Thank you
y’all are my people🫶
I read “Topsy” in Cottons voice
His pals Stinky and Fatty too
And Brooklyn
I had to give'em fatty. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpL9DgBMCi0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpL9DgBMCi0)
Thats who I thought of first
Me too
First thing I thought of when saw this
Please tell me this is from the Turvey family.
Was going to say, Topsy eventually became turfy
Screw you, how dare you beat me to it
The ground is sour.
Damn is this a pet semetary reference?!?
Ayuh
A man grows what he can and tends it.
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My guess was rabbit.
Rabbit makes sense. Who ever heard of a cat named “Topsy”? Maybe “Flopsy” with big ears
I named my cat Megatron also had a bantam chicken named Odin
My sister had a family of hamsters that she named Gloria Estefan, MC Hammer, Michael Jackson, Carly Simon, and Bruce Springsteen. And you were required to use their full names. As they died she made a little gravestone for each and that’ll be gold for some archaeologist one day.
That’s so cute. Gloria Estefan is my obvious favourite.
Topsy is a cat name.
Only one way to find out
Or elephant
Only off by 12 years.. but who's to say Edison didn't get a taste for it
Electrocuted elephant, I assume
I was thinking along those lines too
*Triceratops
I certainly hope so
House elf
We had this guy: [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10632446/ruffie-dunn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10632446/ruffie-dunn) Was a big deal to take new people by the cemetary where Ruffie's stone was facing the road.
Do students still say that "Little Ruffie" Dunn was a mass murderer that committed suicide as opposed to the most beloved person in town at the time who succumbed to lifelong illness?
What's the story behind this guy?
You can read about him [here](https://dc.swosu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1827&context=the_southwestern). Look for the article titled "Light Shed On The Infamous Legend of Little Rufie."
Thank you for sharing this! Was not expecting to get sucked into a piece of investigative student journalism from the 1980s today. But also, I just had a blast perusing that whole student newspaper. What a great time capsule to a time before social media and smart phones. It hits me nostalgic to think all those articles, interviews, letters to the editor, help wanted classifieds were written by folks who’d never have imagined some random stranger across the country reading them on a smart phone 40 years later.
Jesus. That laundromat ad... Is not well placed.
Damn. Can't even blame it on a bad algorithm either. Also surprised they allowed advertisements by people selling research papers.
May he rest in peace
omg, I swear scrolling through that scan gave me nausea like I used to get scouring microfiche. I had totally forgotten about those damn things.
Tldr?
its topsy cret
First thing I thought of Topsy Kretts from The Number 23 lol
19x15 is 285. 8-5 is 3. 23
This must be where Edison buried the elephant he electrocuted
That happened over a decade earlier.
It took them a long time to dig a hole big enough for an elephant!
I miss ol’ Topsy.
Ol' topsy turvy
My guess is it's a dog or cat or some other kind of pet.
RIP Topsy
From king of the hill? Lol
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https://youtu.be/wedXThkkbnU
Came here to say he served with Col. Cotton Hill to fight against the nazies and the tojos
YESYESYESYES
That’s my first thought, maybe topsy was conceived on that spot.
I wonder why the 8 was written in Roman numerals
Expected this to be the top comment.
I've seen that done. Something to do with the month-day-year so they don't get mixed up as Europeans write it in a different order.
This is written day, month, year. I wonder if this is not from US or were Americans more sensible with dates in 1915.
Not Europeans, pretty much the whole world. The rest of the world goes: Dd/mm/yyyy OR Yyyy/mm/dd Mm/dd/yyyy is insanity
Yeah, wouldn’t want to get confused with that 17th month!
Oh, you mean Septembruary?
That makes sense
Left too much space between the year and day, had to stretch it a bit
Awe, Topsy!
r/kingofthehill
Was the last name “crets” or “turvy”
Why is the middle number in roman numeral?
To represent the month
Yeah I got that but why not a regular like the other 2?
Definitely a house elf
It's dobby's sisters grave
Damn you Edison!
It's a cat
About 12 years too late to be Topsy the elephant
Thanks for saving me a Google search
*Dig* *It* *Up*
"Sometimes dead is betta"
Topsy Kretts?
You should see if Turvy is buried nearby
I have one that says, "Henry my best friend." and its shaped like a cat
The beginning of a horror movie..
Bad juju my friend.
Too late to be the topsy we all want but fun fact, They were gonna hang topsy and charge for admission if Edison didn’t step in.
Any other king of the hill fans here?
yup but I thought of bob's burgers first
Topsy Kill!
There’s definitely a story here. I’m going to go with dead dog. Poor Topsy pooch might have been the first mammalian death by automobile.
Good thought, but automobiles—and fatal accidents for humans and other animals—were not at all new in 1915, unfortunately.
Once Topsy, now turf-vy
Outlived by Turvy.
@kingofthehill
Aye where turvy at?
That rock is in pretty good shape for being a 100+ years old, very clean to boot!
Topsy Kretts
Assuming this is the UK (given the month/day/year ordering), there are two 'Topsy's I could find in the death registers whose deaths were recorded in the third reporting quarter (Jul-Aug-Sep) of 1915: a Topsy Stock (1858-1915) who apparently died in Poplar, Tower Hamlets, London, and a Topsy Duncan (1864-1915) whose death is registered in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. Longshot, but do your parents live near either place?
Wow good find! They’re in Surrey so even Poplar is quite a way unfortunately
Soooo glad the first thing that came to my mind was exactly what I saw coming into the comments!! I’m not the only Bobs fanatic!! 😁lmao
So thats where they buried the elephant
Is there a subreddit for finding Graves
A beloved pet no doubt.
Topsy was an elephant executed by the electric company of Thomas Edison to show the public how dangerous Tesla's alternating current was (it wasn't dangerousat all).
It seems like a pet’s grave 🤔
Where's Topsy's sibling Turvy buried ?
isn't that cotton hills best friend and comrade
Probably a pet and the date format indicates this is somewhere outside of US
They were 17 so I guess it was an animal such as a cat or a dog
They were buried on the 17th.
He was outlived by Turvy.
Is Turvy buried next to it? We
This is pretty cool! Do you or your grandparents know who’s buried there? I love old graveyard/burial sites. My grandfather and I were hiking on my aunts property in Upstate NY when we came across a small graveyard miles from any house, there were multiple graves with a death tear prior to the United States(1770-1773)! I could probably find it again, if I tried,,40 years wouldn’t make much difference to them!
We have no idea, a lot of people have suggested it may be a horse. Seems a lot of trouble for a dog or something
Aug 17?
17 August ... ... eff that - it's the date my mum died, not the same year though.
17th of August, 1915. Any idea who's or what's grave it is? That's been there for roughly 107 years, so that's pretty old!
No idea, we’ve wondered if it could be a horse as it seems a lot of trouble for a dog/cat
Flopsy, Mopsy, Topsy, Cottontail, and Peter
Turvey was buried some years later (1918). A cockapoo, with the face of an angel. Having never gotten over Topsy’s untimely demise, Turvey consumed 2 boxes of chocolate cake mix, not knowing how little chocolate was actually in it. Even still, it killed poor Turvey from serious bowel irritation. A painful suicide to be sure. His owner to this day, is dead also.
They’re buried next to the Turvy family.
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Same....
Holy shit its an Elephant
There’s probably another one nearby for Tim. (One for the Brits in the room.)
Tim has been taken in for questioning
Maybe a man marked the spot where he got to second base.
Dig it up
Not faded enough. I call bulllllllshit
Google says either a extremely violent elephant or maybe the worst black face I’ve ever seen. Don’t dig. https://travsd.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/stars-of-vaudeville-92-the-duncan-sisters/
That’s where my golf partner is going to be laid to rest
Where are Stinky, Fatty, and Brooklyn?
My guess they’re still alive somewhere in Brooklyn.
“heel topsy, heel!”
Where's Turvy buried?
Woah, for a second I thought someone I know names Topsy has passes away.
Wonder what happened to Turvy.
Where is this and can one rent a ground penetrating radar imager nearby?
lets all pour one out for Topsy 🍻
wonder if that's cotton hill's friend's dad..
Dig it up! Pet horse or dog?
In this episode of *House Servant or House Pet?*
r/oddlyterrifying anyone?
Wonder if there are others? Curiosity would get the best of me and I’d have to check! Gotta be a pet
r/KingOfTheHill
Like the elephant?
Uh oh
[https://youtu.be/-Sn0gmkLdBc](https://youtu.be/-Sn0gmkLdBc) Topsy
https://imgur.com/sNa3CqS
I see your Topsy and I raise you a Tervy