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Graveyard Epitaphs

Interesting & Humerous Epitaphs from the Cemetery

By , About.com Guide

Sometimes humor can be found where you least expect it - such as in the cemetery. These epitaphs include humor, the famous, the curious and the just plain strange.

Lester Moore was a Wells Fargo Co. station agent, and is buried at Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona:

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

In memory of Lettuce Manning:

Oh cruel death
To satisfy the palate,
Cut down our Lettuce
To make a salad.

Self Written Epitaph:

When people's ills, they come to I
I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em;
Sometimes they live, sometimes they die;
What's that to I?
--I. Letsome

Epitaph for a Dentist

Stranger! Approach this spot with gravity.
John Brown is filling his last cavity.

A marker in Enosburg Falls, Vermont

Here lies the body of our dead Anna
gone to death by a banana
It wasn't the fruit that dealt the blow
But the skin of the thing that laid her low!

From the grave of Ezekial Aikle, East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia, Canada:

Here lies
Ezekial Aikle
Age 102
The Good
Die Young

In a cemetery in London, England:

Here lies Ann Mann
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann
Dec. 8, 1767

The widow gets her say in this tombstone 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.

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