This is why people sat with a dead body in a casket for a few days in their homes before burial.This article was published…
The following tombstone is from Ireland, 1781 Ah cruel Death! why so unkind To take her, and leave me behind? Better to have taken…
On a tombstone in Grafton, Vt.: Gone home below. ---- Here lies Bernard Lightfoot who was accidentally killed in his forty fifth year. Erected…
In a New York churchyard: We shall miss thee, mother. (Good job printing neatly done) ----- Here lies Jane Smith, Wife of Thomas…
On Thomas Woodcock: Here lie the remains of Thomas Woodhen, The most amiable of husbands and excellent of men, N. B. His real name…
Here lies my wife in earthly mould, Who, when she liv'd, did naught but scold; Peace, wake her not, for now she's still, She…
Epitaph on an old woman who kept a pottery-shop in Chester, England: Beneath these stones lie old Kathering Gray, Changed from a busy life…
Interesting epitaphs for three women There is an epitaph of an eccentric character that may be seen on a tombstone at the burying-grounds near Hoosick Falls,…
CEMETERY NEAR LAKE LORRAINE AND ROBERTSON CEMETERY IN NORTHPORT, ALABAMA (Transcribed from - The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 04, No. 04, Winter Issue 1942)…
This was evidently not a loving family - Copied from a tombstone in a Massachusetts Churchyard: This to the memory of Ellen Hill, A…
Copied from a tombstone in a Massachusetts Churchyard: John T ______, Schoolmaster. May he be punished as often as he punished us. He was…
A Monument in Horsley-Down Church, Cumberland, England, bears the following singular and admonitory inscription (1768): Here lie the bodies Of Thomas Bond and Mary…
The three following epitaphs are copied from the tombstones of representative men of of Native American tribes of New England. At Oldtown, Maine, over the…
Here I lies and no wonder I'm dead, For the wheel of a wagon went over my head On the tombstone of twin sisters,…
The following lines are on the tombstone of Peter Snell, for 35 years parish clerk of Crayford, Kent, England: The life of this clerk…
From a tombstone in Oxford, N. H.: To all my friends I bid adieu; A more sudden death you never knew: As I was…
In England: This world's a City full of crooked streets, And death the Market-place where all men meets; If Life was Merchandise that men…
Here lies one Box within another; The one of wood Was very good; We cannot say so much for t'other. Here lies the body…
Here are some humorous epitaphs from the western part of the United States Some Boothill epitaphs: Carson City, Nevada, epitaph of a horse thief.…
Unusual Monument and Epitaph In the Magnolia Cemetery in the lot of W. S. Metcalf is a monument to a FAITHFUL FRIEND. This is…
These tombstones reveal the unusual way the people died: Albany, New York Henry Edsel Smith Born 1903 – Died 1942 Looked up the elevator…
This was written by the widow of a pyrotechnics manufacturer, Erected by his spouse to the memory of A----- B----- Manufacturer of Fireworks He…
Be careful when you start looking for cemeteries in the deep woods. This is one reason why. A woman in KY, an avid cemetery…
From New Jersey Julia Adams Died of thin shoes, April 17th, 1839 aged 19 years In Plymouth churchyard Here lies the body of Thomas…
A marble-cutter, inscribing the words, - “Lord she was thine” upon a tombstone, found that he had not figured his spaces correctly and he…
Capt. Jones was a great traveler and fond of telling large stories, some of which he verified by an oath. When he died, the…
Here are some humorous epitaphs from the West Some Boothill epitaphs: Carson City, Nevada, epitaph of a horse thief. "He found a rope and…
GREENWOOD CEMETERY, TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA (Transcriptions below are from - The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 04, No. 04, Winter Issue 1942) Greenwood cemetery located in…
Tombstones on the grave of wives Maria, wife of Timothy Brown Aged eighty years, And died in the confident hope of a better life.…
These inscriptions and more are also available in the book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IV GREENWOOD CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS Before 1942 In memory of Captain…
