Author: Epitaph Page 27

"May ye be in heaven an hour before the devil knows you're dead"

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Poor Martha Snell, she's gone away. She would if she could, but she could not stay; she'd two bad legs, and a baddish cough, but her legs it was that carried her off.

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Sacred To the Memory of LEWIS WICKS, who was killed on Thursday the 4, Oct. at 2 O'ck. P.M. by a waggon loaded with hay running over his brest. AD.1821 AE 56 years 3 mo. & 4 d's. who has left an affectionate Consort, and numerous friends to lament his loss.

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Been Here: Now Gone: Had a Good Time.

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Here lies the body of Arkansas Jim. We made the mistake, but the joke's on him.

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Close behind this stone Here lies alone Captain Reynolds Marvin Expecting his wife When ends her life. And we both are freed from sarvin',

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Here lies the body of Obadiah Wilkinson – And Bulb, his wife. – Their warfare is accomplished.

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OK . . . I gotta go now.

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

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Here lies the body of Martha Dias, who was always uneasy, and not over pious; she lived to the age of three score and ten, and gave that to the worms she refused to the men.

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I don't know how to die.

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Getting there is half the fun!

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Here richly, with ridiculous display, the politician’s corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged, I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

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He was literally a father to all the children of the parish.

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I knew if I stayed around long enough, something like this would happen

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Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once and now I know it.

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While on earth my knee was lame, I had to nurse and heed it. But now I’m at a better place, where I don’t even need it.

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Here lies an honest lawyer – and that is Strange.

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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!

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My life’s been hard, and all things show it; I always thought so and now I know it.

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Here lies Gilles – Used no net, knew no fear, made mis-step, wound up here

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