In a Maryland, cemetery:
Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up
And no place to go
On a grave in Nova Scotia:
Here lies Ezekial Aikle
Age 102
The Good Die Young.
In a London, England cemetery:
Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann
In a Ribbesford, England cemetery:
The children of Israel wanted bread,
And the Lord sent them manna,
Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife,
And the Devil sent him Anna
In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery:
Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
Stepped on the gas Instead of the brake
In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery:
Here lays Butch,
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger,
But slow on the draw.
In a Vermont cemetery:
In memory of my husband John Barnes.
His comely young widow, aged 23,
has many qualifications of a good wife,
and yearns to be comforted.
An epitaph in England for Sir John Strange:
Here lies an honest lawyer,
And that is Strange.
Anonymous in Stowe, Vermont:
I was somebody.
Who, is no business of yours.
Boot Hill Cemetery in Arizona:
Here lies Lester Moore
Four slugs from a .44
No Les No More.
On Margaret Daniels' grave in Richmond, Virginia:
She always said her feet were killing her
but nobody believed her.
Owen Moore in a London cemetery:
Gone away,
Owin' more Than he could pay.
In a Georgia cemetery:
"I told you I was sick!"