East Dalhousie Cemetary, Nova Scotia
                                "Here lies
                               Ezekial Aikle
                                  Age 102
                            The Good Die Young"

London, England cemetary:
                           "Here lies Ann Mann,
                           Who lived an old maid
                          But died an old Mann."
                             December 8, 1767

Ribbesford, England cemetary:
                               Anna Wallace
                   "The children of Israel wanted bread
                       And the Lord sent them manna,
                     Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife,
                       And the Devil sent him Anna."

Ruidoso, New Mexico:
                         "Here lies Johnny Yeast.
                        Pardon me for not rising."

Uniontown, Pennsylvania:
                  "Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake.
                 Stepped on the gas instead of the brake."

Silver City, Nevada:
                             "Here lies Butch.
                            We planted him raw.
                         Was quick on the trigger,
                          But slow on the draw."

A widow wrote this in a Vermont cemetary:
 "Sacred to the memory of my husband John Barnes who died January 3, 1803.
   His comely young widow, aged 23, as many qualification of a goo wife,
                       And yearns 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 a Wells Fargo Company agent, Naco, Arizona, during the 1880's,
is buried in the Boot Hill Cemetary in Tombstone:
                         "Here lies Lester Moore.
                           Four slugs from a .44
                             No Les No More."

John Penny's epitaph in Wimborne, England:
                 "Reader if cash thou art in want of any,
               Dig 4 feet deep and thou wilt find a Penny."

On Margaret Daniels grave, Hollywood Cemetary Richmond, Virginia:
   "She always said her feet were killing her but nobody believed her."

Harscombe, England:
                           "On the 22nd of June
                            - Jonathan Fiddle -
                            Went out of tune."

Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont:
                      "Here lies the body of our Anna
                        Done to death by a banana.
                   It wasn't the fruit tha laid her low
               But the skin of the thing that made her go."

Owen Moore, Battersea, London, England:
                                "Gone away
                                Owin' more
                            Than he could pay."

Winslow, Maine:
                          In Memory of Beza Wood
                   Departed this life, November 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."

1880's, Nantucket, Massachusetts:
                    "Under the sode and under the trees
                     Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
                   He is not here, there's only the pod:
                    Pease shelled out and went to God."

Ellen Shannon, Girard, Pennsylvannia:
         Fatally burned, March 21, 1870 by the explosion of a lamp
         Filled with "R.E.Danforth's Non-Explosive Burning Fluid.

Harry Edsel Smith, Albany, New York:
                          Born 1903 -- Died 1942
                 "Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the
                    car was on the way down.  It was."

Thurmont, Maryland:
                           "Here lies an Athiest
                              All dressed up
                            And nowhere to go."