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These epitaphs are reported to be from actual tombstones.
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.
Playing with names in a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery:
Here lies
Johnny Yeast
Pardon me
For not rising.
Memory of an accident 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.
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.
In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery:
Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up
And no place to
go.
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