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CEMETERY NEAR LAKE LORRAINE AND ROBERTSON CEMETERY IN NORTHPORT, ALABAMA (Transcribed from - The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 04, No. 04, Winter Issue 1942)…
Copied from a tombstone in a Massachusetts Churchyard: John T ______, Schoolmaster. May he be punished as often as he punished us. He was…
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The following tombstone is from Ireland, 1781 Ah cruel Death! why so unkind To take her, and leave me behind? Better to have…
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…
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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…
Unusual Monument and Epitaph In the Magnolia Cemetery in the lot of W. S. Metcalf is a monument to a FAITHFUL FRIEND. This is…
Here are some humorous epitaphs from the western part of the United States Some Boothill epitaphs: Carson City, Nevada, epitaph of a horse thief.…
These tombstones reveal the unusual way the people died: Albany, New York Henry Edsel Smith Born 1903 – Died 1942 Looked up the elevator…
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…
This was written by the widow of a pyrotechnics manufacturer, Erected by his spouse to the memory of A----- B----- Manufacturer of Fireworks He…
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…
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In an old cemetery in Kentucky is buried a certain aged spinster who lived heart-whole and fancy-free to the age of 70 years. Her…
This man evidently loved food according to his epitaph: On a tombstone from 1690, are these lines: "Here lies the bones Of Joseph Jones,…
Tombstones on the grave of wives Maria, wife of Timothy Brown Aged eighty years, And died in the confident hope of a better life.…
In a New York churchyard: We shall miss thee, mother. (Good job printing neatly done) ----- Here lies Jane Smith, Wife of Thomas Smith,…
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”…
The deaths of young children is always sad: On a tombstone in Portland, Maine, over the body of a child, is this couplet: "The…
This man's trade of watch-making was used in his unusual epitaph on his tombstone. "Here lies in horizontal position The outside case of George…
Funny gravestones: Epitaph of a noted politician: "Here reader, turn your weeping eyes, My fate a useful moral teaches; The hole in which my…
On Thomas Kemp, who was hanged for sheep stealing: Here lies the body of Thomas Kemp, Who lived by wool, but died by hemp; There's…
On a tombstone in New Hampshire: Richard Jenkins here doth lay (Lately removed from over ye way), His body's here – his soul's in…
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…
