The following lines are from a rough headboard at a pass in the Rocky Mountains known as the Devils Gate. Here lies the body…
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…
From a tombstone in Oxford, N. H.: To all my friends I bid adieu; A more sudden death you never knew: As I was…
BELLS LANDING by Sherry S. Johnston Several weeks ago, I took a tour of Vredenburg, Hybart, Franklin, Bells Landing communities in Monroe County, AL.…
Excerpt from REMINISCENCES OF PEROTE IN BULLOCK (This transcribed excerpt was written before 1958) Perote cemetery and school A short distance south of the…
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…
Thought provoking inscriptions found on tombstones In Highgate cemetery, London: "Life's like a Winter's Day: Some only Breakfast and away; Others to Dinner stay,…
Famous people sometimes leave thought provoking epitaphs about their life like these: “I may be gone but Rock and Roll lives on” John Belushi “Here…
COLBERTIANS By R. L. James SECTION III OBITUARIES AND CEMETERY RECORDS To the Readers of the Alabama Historical Quarterly: (The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol.…
Some Funny Tombstones - Grave marker in Covington, Virginia "I made a lot of deals in my lifetime ... But I sure went in…
These two tombstone inscriptions are from a cemetery in England: These two tombstone inscriptions are from a cemetery in England:"The Lord saw good, I…
Some people believe in showing or engraving their trades on their tombstones... Epitaph to blind woodsawyer in Georgia: "While none ever saw him see…
On a tombstone in Worcester, England, is the following singular inscription: "Mammy and I together lived Just two years and a half; She went…
Multiple wives burial presented problems A man had two wives buried in one grave in England; and after recording their several virtues, the Epitaph…
Interesting tombstone epitaphs from around the world: Stephen Remnant Here’s a Remnant of life, and a Remnant of death, Taken off both at once…
Two humorous tombstones from the west explain a lot. Cripple Creek, Colorado, A man killed by a rattlesnake “Within this grave There lies poor…
Click to learn how to Become a Patron! These epitaphs were found on some actual tombstones. Did they really mean to say this? Catholic…
EVERGREEN CEMETERY, TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA (Transcribed from - The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 04, No. 04, Winter Issue 1942) Evergreen Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (photograph by…
These old epitaphs reveal much about how the victim died This death appears to have occurred by a tragic accident Smith ran to catch…
EXTRA HELP by Nadine Nabors Back in 1983 for my birthday present "to me" was going to the LDS library in Los Angeles Calif.…
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,…
The Ghost of Salem cemetery by Shannon Hollon My Great grandfather Robert Bearden (Pawpaw) was an avid coon-hunter. Robert Bearden 1898-1984 One fall night…
CEMETERY NEAR LAKE LORRAINE AND ROBERTSON CEMETERY IN NORTHPORT, ALABAMA (Transcribed from - The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 04, No. 04, Winter Issue 1942)…
