On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia
Here lies Ezekial Aikle Age 102
The Good Die Young
In a London, England cemetery
Ann Mann
Here lies Ann Mann, Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann.
Dec. 8, 1767
In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery
Anna Wallace
The children of Israel wanted bread
And the Lord sent them manna,
Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife,
And the Devil sent him Anna.
In a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery
Here lies Johnny Yeast
Pardon me For not rising.
In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery
Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
Stepped on the gas instead of the brake.
In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery
Here lays Butch, We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger, But slow on the draw.
A widow wrote this epitaph in a Vermont cemetery
Sacred to the memory of my husband John Barnes who died January 3, 1803.
His comely young widow, aged 23, has many qualifications of a good wife, and yearns to be comforted.
A lawyer's epitaph in England
Sir John Strange
Here lies an honest lawyer,
And that is Strange.
Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont
I was somebody.
Who, is no business Of yours.
Lester Moore was a Wells, Fargo Co. station agent for Naco, Arizona in the cowboy days of the 1880's. He's buried in the Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona
Here lies Lester Moore
Four slugs from a .44
No Les No More.
In a Georgia cemetery
"I told you I was sick!"
John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery
Reader if cash thou art in want of any
Dig 4 feet deep And thou wilt find a Penny
On Margaret Daniels grave at Hollywood Cemetery Richmond, Virginia
She always said her feet were killing her but nobody believed her
In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England
On the 22nd of June - Jonathan Fiddle - Went out of tune
Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont has an epitaph that sounds like something from a Three Stooges movie
Here lies the body of our Anna done to death by a banana
It wasn't the fruit that laid her low, but the skin of the thing that made her go
More fun with names with Owen Moore in Battersea, London, England
Gone away Owin' more Than he could pay
Someone in Winslow, Maine didn't like Mr. Wood
In Memory of Beza Wood
Departed this life Nov. 2, 1837 Aged 45 yrs.
Here lies one Wood Enclosed in wood
One Wood Within another.
The outer wood Is very good:
We cannot praise The other.
On a grave from the 1880's in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Under the sod and under the trees Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
He is not here, there's only the pod:
Pease shelled out and went to God
The grave of Ellen Shannon in Girard, Pennsylvania is almost a consumer tip
Who was fatally burned March 21, 1870 by the explosion of a lamp filled with "R. E. Danforth's Non-Explosive Burning Fluid"
Oops! Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York
Born 1903--Died 1942
Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down.
It was
Anonymous Lemmington, England
Here lies a miser who lived for himself,
who cared for nothing but gathering wealth.
Now where he is and how he fares;
nobody knows and nobody cares
Peter Daniels Edinburgh, Scotland
Beneath this stone a lump of clay Lies Uncle Peter Dan'els
Who early in the month of May Took off his winter flannels
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