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Monday, February 18

FUNNY EPITAPHS

Here lies my wife,
Here lies she;
Hallelujah!
Hallelujee!
In a Leeds graveyard [1861]

"I told you I was sick!"
In a Georgia 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 Ribbesford, England, cemetery

Here lies the body
of Jonathan Blake
Stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake.
Memory of an accident in a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery

Here lays Butch,
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger,
But slow on the draw.
In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery

I was somebody.
Who, is no business
Of yours.
Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont

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

Sir John Strange.
Here lies an honest man.
And that is Strange.
A lawyer’s tombstone in England

Here lies
Ezekial Aikle
Age 102
The Good
Die Young

Here lies
Johnny Yeast
Pardon me
For not rising
In Ruidoso, New Mexico

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

Reader if cash thou art
In want of any
Dig 4 feet deep
And thou wilt find a Penny.
John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery

Gone away Owin' more
Than he could pay
Owen Moore in Battersea, London, England

Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up And no place to go.
In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery

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Shiners Editors