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Here is an epitaph about a woman who in life was evidently a great gossip: 'Tread softly, reader, lest you wake, The greatest talker that…
Epigrams which originally were inscriptions on tombs were invented by the Roman poet Martial. Poignancy and sting was deemed the necessary characteristic of this…
Epitaph of a resigned and submissive husband on his second wife: Here lies wife second of old Wing Rogers She's safe from care and…
From Solyhull Churchyard, Warwickshire, England The following Epitaph was written by a certain Rev. Dr. Greenwood on his wife, who died in childbirth. One…
TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Two interesting tombstones New England epitaph of 1872: "My father and mother were both insane I inherited the terrible stain, My grandfather,…
On a tombstone in Grafton, Vt.: Gone home below. ---- Here lies Bernard Lightfoot who was accidentally killed in his forty fifth year. Erected…
Humorous Tombstones England “When the great judgment day arrives and Joshua Fenton Newton does not emerge from this hole, you will know that someone…
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,…
A Curious Vermont Epitaph "Sacred to the memory of three twins" WHERE DO I START? Hints and Tips for Beginning Genealogists with On-line…
Some people believe in engraving their trades on their tombstones in the past. Epitaph to blind woodsawyer in Georgia: "While none ever saw him…
More funny tombstones Epitaph over wife in Sunbury Churchyard, England: “Oh! Do not weep, my husband dear; I am not dead, but sleeping here;…
Actual Tombstone A brother getting even with widow for poisoning his brother and her husband – Knight's Corner – Pelham, Massachusetts Warren Gibbs Died…
The following is in the Necropolis, Glasgow Here lyes Bessy Bell But whereabouts I cannot tell. From Montrose churchyard Here lies the bodeys of…
Beneath this stone lies Katharine Gray, Chang'd from a busy life to lifeless clay: By earth and clay she got her pelf, And now…
This was evidently not a loving family - Copied from a tombstone in a Massachusetts Churchyard: This to the memory of Ellen Hill, A…
