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Charlevoix,
Michigan USA
Against thy
will, thy will be done.
Eastlake
Cemetery, North Kingsville, Ohio:
Why
me?
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.
Ruidoso,
New Mexico, cemetery:
- Here
lies
- Johnny
Yeast
- Pardon
me
- For
not rising.
-
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.
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:
- 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.
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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