Some funny tombstones from Topeka, Kansas: "Here lies Sheriff Tim McGrew who said he would arrest Bill Hennessy or die... He was right." "Here…
Block Island, N. Y He's done a catching cod And gone to meet his God. From Tennessee She lived a life of virtue and…
From a cemetery near Cincinnati, Ohio: Here lies ------ Who came to this city and died for the benefit of his health. From Belturbet…
CEMETERY NEAR LAKE LORRAINE AND ROBERTSON CEMETERY IN NORTHPORT, ALABAMA (Transcribed from - The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 04, No. 04, Winter Issue 1942)…
On a tombstone in England: This disease, you ne'er heard tell on — I died of eating too much mellon; Be careful, then all you…
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…
This man evidently loved food according to his epitaph: On a tombstone from 1690, are these lines: "Here lies the bones Of Joseph Jones,…
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…
This man must have been difficult to be friends with. On a tombstone in Ohio, are these lines: Here the old man lies, No…
In a cemetery near Paris, in France, a small lamp was at one time kept burning under an urn over a grave, and the…
Two misers were forever immortalized on their tombstones The wretched man who moulders here Cared not for soul or body lost, — But only…
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…
From New Jersey Julia Adams Died of thin shoes, April 17th, 1839 aged 19 years In Plymouth churchyard Here lies the body of Thomas…
From Colorado Bill Jenkins. Died June 13 1901 He done his damn'dest damn'dest. Angels could do no more From a churchyard in Rothesay Erected…
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…
Tombstones on the grave of wives Maria, wife of Timothy Brown Aged eighty years, And died in the confident hope of a better life.…
From Germantown, PA Here lies the dust of Louisa Orr, whose soul is now a little angle in Heaven Another mistake? Here lies Peter…
Graves side by side in an old cemetery in the west. This must have been quite a shoot-out! “Thomas Hart Killed by Frank Teague”…
One Sexton, an Englishman, had two wives, and this significant inscription was put upon the tombstone of one by the bereaved husband: Here lies…
The deaths of young children is always sad: On a tombstone in Portland, Maine, over the body of a child, is this couplet: "The…
