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Here lies Slip Mcvey
"He would be here today
But bad whiskey and a fast gun
put him away."
Pioche, Nv.

" Here lies
Johnny Yeast
Pardon me
For not rising. "
Ruidoso Nm cemetery.

"Here lays Butch,
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger,
But slow on the draw."
Silver city Nv.

"Sir John Strange
Here lies an honest lawyer,
And that is Strange."
A lawyers epitaph in England.


"Here lies Lester Moore
Four slugs from a .44
No Les No More."
Lester Moore was a Wells, Fargo Co. station agent for Naco, Arizona in the cowboy days of the 1880's. He's buried in the Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona.


"I Told You I Was Sick."
-- found in Round Rock, TX.


Here lies Ellen Shannon
Who was fatally burned
March 21, 1870
by the explosion of a lamp
filled with "R.E. Danforth's
Non-Explosive Burning Fluid"
~Girard Pa.


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



-- Anna Wallace --
"The Children of Israel wanted bread
And the Lord sent them manna
Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife
And the Devil sent him Anna."
~seen in Bibbesford, England.



"Tom Smith is dead, and here he lies,
Nobody laughs and nobody cries;
Where his soul's gone, or how it fares,
Nobody knows, and nobody cares."
In Newbury, England [1742] ......(Ouch!)

"Here lies a man named Zeke.
Second fastest draw in Cripple Creek."
Cripple Creek, Colorado

"I am ready to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

— Winston Churchill

Owen Moore has gone away
Owing more than he could pay

My uncle was an avid golfer but not a good one. When he died his tombstone read: "As close to par as he will ever get". The tombstone next to him was a guy named 'Parr'.

Billy Billy was a chemist.
Billy Billy is no more.
What he thought was H20
Was H2SO4.

"Bill Blake
Was hanged by mistake."
Boot Hill Cemetery, Tombstone, Arizona
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"Here lays Butch.
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger
But slow on the draw."
Silver City, Nevada
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"Here lies the body of Arkansas Jim.
We made the mistake, But the joke's on him."
Culver City, California
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"Stranger tread
This ground with gravity.
Dentist Brown
Is filling his last cavity."
Edinburgh, Scotland

One I thought would be good, especially for a mailman: "Return to sender."

Jedediah Goodwin
Auctioneer
Born 1828
Going!
Going!!
Gone!!!
1876
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"Here lies
Ezekiel Aikle
Age 102
The Good
Die Young."
East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia
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"Here lies the body of poor Aunt Charlotte.
Born a virgin, died a harlot.
For 16 years she kept her virginity
A damn'd long time for this vicinity."
Death Valley, California
>>>>>

Here lies Sir Edward Poe,
The train was fast, but he was slow.
(submitted by: Peter M., San Francisco)

Under the sod and under the trees,
Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
He is not here, there's only the pod.
Pease shelled out and went to God.
(Cemetery in Nantucket, Massachusetts)

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

Hillaire Belloc (1870-1953)
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.

(07-16-2009 12:52 AM)mdv483 Wrote: [ -> ]One I thought would be good, especially for a mailman: "Return to sender."

My grandfather was a postmaster for 40 years. Maybe I can talk him into using it.