Bizarre Gravestone Epitaphs Part 2A list of bizarre gravestone epitaphs, quotes and quotations of people's last words on their tombstones.Rest in Peace
A Collection of Bizarre Gravestone Epitaphs
In the Barlinine Cemetery, Glasgow, Scotland
Here beneath this stone we lie Back to back my wife and I And when the angels trump shall trill If she gets up then I'll lie still!
An attorney's epitaph in Willwood Cemetery, Rockford, Ill.
Goembel John E. 1867-1946 "The defense rests"
In a Stowe, Vt., cemetery
I was somebody. Who, is no business of yours.
Written by a widow on her adulterous husband's gravestone in an Atlanta, Ga., cemetery
Gone, but not forgiven
In a Silver City, Nev., cemetery
Here lays Butch, We planted him raw. He was quick on the trigger But slow on the draw.
An old maid's epitaph in a Scranton, Pa., cemetery
No hits, no runs, no heirs.
A widow wrote this epitaph in a Vermont cemetery
Sacred to the memory of my husband John Barnes who died January 3, 1803
His comely young widow, aged 23, has many qualifications of a good wife, and yearns to be comforted.
Arthur C. Homan's epitaph in a Cleveland, O., cemetery
Once I wasn't Then I was Now I ain't again.
A lawyer's epitaph in England
Sir John Strange Here lies an honest lawyer, And that is Strange.
In a Georgia cemetery
"I told you I was sick!"
John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery
Reader if cash thou art In want of any Dig 4 feet deep And thou wilt find a Penny
In the East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia
Here lies Ezekial Aikle Age 102 The Good Die Young
In a Waynesville, N.C., cemetery
Effie Jean Robinson 1897-1922 Come blooming youths, as you pass by And on these lines do cast an eye As you are now, so once was I; As I am now, so must you be; Prepare for death and follow me.
To which someone, who saw this, added
To follow you I am not content How do I know Which way you went
--The Eds.
FOR FURTHER READING: Over Their Dead Bodies by Thomas C. Mann and Janet Greene. Brattleboro, Vt., Stephen Greene Press, 1962. Grave Humor by Alonzo C. Hall. Charlotte, N.C., McNally of Charlotte, 1961.
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