Subject: Epitaphs (Page 8)

OOPS!, he died – Love from us your father, Tom jr. and Mary

Behold! I come as a thief. – Death loves a shining mark. – In this case he had it.

He was young – He was fair – But the Injuns – Raised his hair

Here lies the body of Jonathan Ground, who was lost at sea and never found.

John Palfryman who is buried here, was aged four and twenty years. And near this place his Mother lies, likewise his father when he dies.

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.

I started out in life with the idea, that the world had an opening for me. And it did.

Excuse Me

Ope'd my eyes took a peep. Didn't like it went back to sleep.

Here lies William Green, who died in Manchester, Sept. 18, 18__. Had he lived, he would have been buried here.

At last, a year-round resident

A Finished Artist

Don't worry, I'm merely catching up with sleep.

On the four husbands of Ivy Saunders: Here lies my husbands 1 – 2 – 3. As still as men could ever be. As for the fourth: Praise be to God He still abides above the sod: Abel, Seth and Leidy were the first 3 names and to make things tidy I'll add his – James.

Accidentally shot as a mark of affection by his brother. After life's fever, I sleep well.

Poor Betty Conway, she drank lemonade at a masquerade, So now she's dead and gone away.

This is all that remains of poor Ben Hough. He had forty-nine years and that was enough. Of worldly goods he had his share, And now he's gone to the Devil's snare.

Never born, Never died: visited the planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990.

Gone home below.

Here lies old Caleb Ham, by trade a bum. When de died the devil cried, Come, Caleb, come.

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