Subject: Epitaphs (Page 9)

Here Betsy Brown her body lies. Her soul is flying in the skies. While here on earth she oftimes spun six hundred skeins from sun to sun, and wove one day, her daughter brags, two hundred pounds of carpet rags.

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I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

(234 – 149 BC) Roman statesman
Death Epitaphs

Sh-h-h

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Here lies old Rastus Sominy – died a-eating hominy, In 1859 anno domini

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Beneath this stone now dead to grief Lies Grid the famous Wokag chief. Pause here and think you learned prig, This man was once an Indian big. Consider this, ye lowly one, this man was once a big in-jun. Now he lies here, you too must rot, as sure as pig shall go to pot.

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The body that lies buried here – By lightning fell, death's sacrifice, – To him Elijah's fate was given – He rode on flames of fire to heaven.

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Where did everybody go?

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I thought my doctor said I was heading for a rave.

Doctors Epitaphs

In memory of Henry Wang, son of his, Father and mother, John and Maria Wang. Died Dec. 31st 1829 … The first deposit of this yard.

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Here I at length repose, My spirit now at aise is; With the tips of my toes And the point of my nose Turned up to the roots of the daisies.

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John Edwards who perished in a fire. None could hold a candle to him.

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Here lies the body of Martha Dias, Who was always uneasy and not over pious, She liv'd to the age of threescore and ten, And gave that to the worms she refus'd to the men.

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This stone was raised to Sarah Ford, not Sarah's virtues to record, for they're well known to all the town. No Lord; it was raised to keep her down.

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Smart Humorous, Irreverent Tormented – Justin Arthur Frank, M.D. March 22, 1908 – January 20, 1986

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Here lies George Johnson, He was right, We was wrong, But we strung him up, And now he's gone

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Many a heart by sorrow pressed, doth envy me my peaceful rest

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Shall all we die? We shall die all. All die shall we? Die all we shall.

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Near by these grey rocks, enclosed in a box, lies hatter Cox who died of small pox.

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Our bodies are like shoes, which off we cast, physic their cobblers, and Death their last.

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Never born, Never died: visited the planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990.

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Agreeable to the memory of Mrs Alinda Tewksbury. She was not a beleiver [sic] in the Christian idolitry.

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