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Scotty… beam me up!

Ma Loves Pa – Pa Loves Women – Ma Caught Pa, With 2 in Swimmin – Here Lies Pa…

Lawrence L. Cook Jr. 10-29-1934 — 8-1-2004

She lived a life of virtue and died of the cholera morbus, caused by eating green fruit in hope of a blessed immortality.

Captain Thomas Coffin, died 1842, age 50 years. He's done a-catching cod and gone to meet his God.

Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down – it was.

Our life is but a summer's day: Some only breakfast, and away; Others to dinner stay, and are full fed; The oldest man but sups, and goes to bed. Large his account who lingers out the day; Who goes the soonest, has the least to pay.

Death is a debt that’s justly due, that I have paid and so must you.

He never won immortal fame, nor conquered earthly ills, but men weep for him all the same, he always paid his bills.

Here lies Fred, Who was alive and is dead: Had it been his father, I had much rather; Had it been his brother, Still better than another; Had it been his sister, No-one would have missed her; Had it been the whole generation, So much better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive and is dead, here's no more to be said.

Here lies Ezekiel Aikle Age 102 – The Good Die Young.

His faults are buried with him beneath this stone. His virtues (if he had any) are remembered by his friends.

Factory Reject

She was never meant to be understood, just loved.

Here lie Walker's particles.

Here lies Lotta Dust.

Here lieth, underneath these stones, The Beard, the Flesh, and eke the Bones Of Wrexham's Clerk, old Daniel Jones.

Let her RIP

Slip McVey – He might a be here today – But rum, whisky an a bad gun – Put him away.

He got a fish-bone in his throat and then he sang an angel's note.

Here lie the remains of John Hall, grocer. The world is not worth a fig, and I have good raisins for saying so.

Bill Blake – was hanged by mistake.