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Here lies my wife: here let her lie!
Now she's at rest, and so am I.
John Dryden (1631-1700)

I was well, I wished to be better; here I am.
Anonymous

Sir John Strange.
Here lies an honest man.
And that is Strange.
A lawyer’s tombstone in England

"I told you I was sick!"
In a Georgia cemetery

Colorado
Bill Blake
Was hanged by mistake.

On the grave of a woman who died in 1984. Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her son, owner of Zeezo's Magic Castle in Colorado Springs, stated that his mother had been married to a Texan who is buried in Texas.
I would
rather be here
than in Texas.

Here lies old Rastus Sominy
Died a-eating hominy
In 1859 anno domini
Savannah, Georgia

He got a fish-bone in his throat
and then he sang an angel note.
Schenectady, New York

Beneath this stone, a lump of clay,
Lies stingy Jimmy Wyatt.
Who died one morning just at ten
And saved a dinner by it.

Eliza, Sorrowing
Rears This Marble Slab
To Her Dear John
Who Died of Eating Crab.

On a grave digger:
Hooray my brave boys
Lets rejoice at his fall.
For if he had lived
He would have buried us all.

He lived
And died
By suicide

A Finished Artist
Here lies the body of
Detlof Swenson.
Waiter.
God finally caught his eye.
April 10, 1902

Once I wasn't
Then I was
Now I ain't again.

Thomas Stagg's epitaph:
That is all


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