Welcome to Sunday All Day Brunch. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. My Dad was interested in family trees and spent a lot of time in old graveyards looking for family graves. He had several books on tombstone sayings. Some of them are very funny. So I guess you better be sure not to make enemies in life because they can get their revenge on your tombstone.
Over a man killed by a gunpowder explosion:
He rests in pieces.
From a tombstone in Scotland:
John McFarlane
Drowned in the Water of Leith
By a few affectionate Friends
A lawyer’s epithet in England:
Sir John Strange
Here lies an honest lawyer,
And that is Strange.
From someone who wanted to remain anonymous:
I was somebody.
Who, is no business
Of yours.
Anna Hopewell’s grave in Enosburg Falls, 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.
Truth in advertising? A widow wrote this epitaph in a Vermont cemetery:
Sacred to the memory of
my husband John Barnes
who died January 3, 1803
His comely young widow, aged 23, has
many qualifications of a good wife, and
yearns to be comforted.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) who declares in his epithet:
I am ready to meet my Maker,
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter!
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:
Here lies Lester Moore
Four slugs from a .44
No Les No More.
In a Georgia cemetery:
I told you I was sick!
In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England:
On the 22nd of June
* Jonathan Fiddle -
Went out of tune.
In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery:
Here lays Butch,
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger,
But slow on the draw.