Larne, Ireland - On a hanged sheep stealer
Here lies the body of
Thomas Kemp.
Who lived by wool
and died by hemp.
Boot Hill Cemetery, Tombstone, Arizona
Here lays Butch.
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger
But slow on the draw.
Silver City, Nevada
Here lies a man named Zeke.
Second fastest draw in Cripple Creek.
On a coroner who hung himself:
He lived
And died
By suicide
On Ezekiel Pease:
Pease is not here,
Only his pod
He shelled out his Peas
And went to his God
A few epitaphs are subtle and do not appear humorous until one thinks about them.
Here lies the body
of John Round.
Lost at sea
and never found.
This Empty Urn is
Sacred to the Memory
of John Revere
Who Died Abroad
in Finistere:
If He Had Lived
He Would Have Been
Buried Here.
"I told you I was sick!"
I was somebody.
Who, is no business
Of yours.
Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont
Here lies
Ezekial Aikle
Age 102
The Good
Die Young
He wasn't.
Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up And no place to go.
In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery
In a Georgia cemetery