Interesting Tombstone Inscriptions




On the grave of Ezekiel Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia:

Here lies Ezekiel Aikle
age 102
The Good
Die young.

In a London, England cemetery:

Ann Mann
Here lies Ann Mann
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann,
Dec. 8, 1967.

In a Ribbsford, England cemetery:

Anna Wallace
The children of Isarael wanted bread
And the Lord sent them manna.
Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife,
And the devil sent him Anna.

Playing with names in a Ruidoso, New Mexico cemetery:

Here lies
Johnny Yeast
Pardon me
For not rising.

Memorial of an accident in a Uniontown, Pennslyvania cemetery:

Here lies the body
Of Jonathan Blake
Stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake.

In a Silver City, Nevada cemetery:

Here lies Butch
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger,
But slow on the draw.

A widow wrote this epitaph in a Vermont cemetery:

Sacred to the memory of
my husband John Barnes
who died January 3, 1803
His comly young widow, aged 23, has
many qualifications of a good wife, and
years to be comforted.

A lawyer’s epitaph in England:

Sir John Strange
Here lies an honest lawyer,
and that is Strange.

Someone  determined to be anonymous  in Stowe, Vermont:

I was somebody,
Who, is no business
Of yours.

Lester Moore was a Wells Fargo Station Agent for Naco, Arizona:
In the cowboy days of the 1880’s,  he is buried in Boot Hill Cemetery:

Here lies Lester Moore
four slugs from a .44
No Les no More.

John Penny’s epitaph in the Winborne, England Cemetery:

Reader, if cash thou art
In want of any
Dig four feet deep
And thou wilt find a Penny.

On Margaret Daniels grave at hollywood cemetery, Richmond, Virginia:

She always said her feet were killing her,
But nobody believed her.

In a cemetery in Hertscombe, England:

On the 22nd of June
-Jonathan Fiddle-
Went out of tune.

Anna Hopewell’s grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont has an epataph that sounds like something from a Hollywood movie:

Here lies the body of our Anna
Done to death by a banna
It wasn’t the fruit that laid her low
But the skin of the thing that made her go.

More fun with names with Owen Moore in Battersea, London, England:

Gone away
Owin’ more
Than he could pay.

Someone in Winslow, Main didn’t like Mr. Wood.

In Memory of Ezra Wood
Departed this life
Nov. 2 1837
Aged 45 years.
Here lies one Wood
Enclosed in wood
One Wood
Within another.
The outer wood
Is very good:
We cannot praise
the other.

One a grave from the 1880’s in Nantucket, Massachusetts:

Under these trees
Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
He is not here, there’s only the pod:
Pease shelled out, and went to God.

The grave of Ellen Dhannon in Girard, Pennslyvania is almost a consumer tip.

Ellen Dhannon
Who was fatally burned
March 21, 1870
by the explosion of a lamp
Filled with “R E. Danforth’s”
Non-explosive Burning Fluid.

Oops! Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York:

Born 1903--died 1942
Looked up the ellevator shaft to see if
the car was on the way down.  it was.

In a Thurmont, Maryland  cemetery:

Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up
With nowhere to go.