Tombstones - Remember Nov 2: Plan-Your-Epitaph Day

24 May 2007

Beneath this stone a lump of clay
Lies Arabella Young
Who on the 11th day of May
Began to hold her tongue.
~ 1794-1863 Arabella Young

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HERE LIES THE BODY OF EPHRAIM WISE
SAFELY TUCKED BETWEEN HIS TWO WIVES
ONE WAS TILLIE AND THE OTHER SUE
BOTH WERE FAILTHFUL LOYAL AND TRUE
BY HIS REQUEST IN GROUND THAT'S HILLY
HIS COFFIN IS SET TILTED TOWARD TILLIE.
~ 1796-WISE-1878

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Here lies Jane Kitchen
Who when her glass was spent
She kickt up her heels
And away she went
~ Jane Kitchen

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Here lies the bones of a man named Bill,
Second fastest draw in Teepleville.
~ Tombstone AZ

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If there's another world
She lives in bliss
If there is none
She made the best of this
~ Cora Meyers

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Here lies the body of John Mound
Lost at sea and never found
~ Winslow Maine

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20 May 2007

Here lies John Hyde
He first lived and then died
He dyed to live and lived to dye
And hopes to live eternally.
~ John Hyde

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I came into this world
Without my consent
And left in the same manner.
~ unknown

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Grimm Death took me
without any warning,
I was well at night
and dead in the morning.
~ Sevenoaks Kent England

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Old Thomas Mulvaney lies here
His mouth ran from ear to ear.
Reader tread lightly on this wonder,
For if he yawns you're gone to thunder.
~ Middlefield MA

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Here Lies Matthew Mudd
Death did him no hurt;
When alive he was Mudd
But now he's only dirt
~ Matthew Mudd

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18 May 2007

Beneath this stone lies Murphy
They buried him today.
He lived the life of Riley
while Riley was away.
~ Roscommon

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Once I Wasn't
Then I Was
Now I ain't Again
~ unknown

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Updated: 18 May 2007 6:19 AM EDT
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10 May 2007

My time has come
My days are spent
I was called away
and away I went !!
~ unknown

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She lived with her husband fifty years
And died in the confident hope of a better life
~ unknown

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Don't Get Around Much Anymore
~ Vahalia Cemetery St Louis MO

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On the 29th Novenber
A confounded piece of timber
Came down bang slam
and killed I, John Lamb
~ John Lamb Huntingdon

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Though shot and shell around flew fast
On Balaclava's Plain,
Unscathed he passed to fall at last
Run over by a train.
~ Old Soldier 25 Oct 1854

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2 May 2007

"Blown Upward and out of sight,
He sought the gas leak by candlelight."
~ Devonshire

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Updated: 2 May 2007 10:00 PM EDT
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Friend, in your epitaphs I'm grieved
So very much is said.
One half will never be believed,
The other never read.
~ unknown Missouri

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Updated: 10 May 2007 9:19 PM EDT
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