Subject: Epitaphs (Page 8)

Called Back.

Posterity will ne'er survey – A nobler grave than this: – Here lies the bones of Castlereagh: – Stop, traveller, and piss.

Here lies the wife of brother Thomas, whom tyrant death has torn from us, her husband never shed a tear, until his wife was buried here. And then he made a fearful rout, for fear she might find her way out.

Here lies the body of Emily White, she signalled left, and then turned right.

Legacy of BPH – Liar • Thief • Cheat • Selfish • Unsharing • Unloving • Unkind • Disloyal • Dishonorable • Unfaithful

Beneath this stone our baby lies, it neither cries nor hollers, It lived but one and twenty days, and cost us forty dollars.

I told you so, you damned fools.

A Man.

Here lies John Higley whose father and mother were drowned in their passage from America. Had they both lived they would have been buried here.

I am not grieved, my dearest life. Sleep on, I've got another wife. Therefore, I cannot come to thee For I must go and live with she.

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

The milk of human kindness was Vny own dear cherub wife – I'll never find another one as good in all my life. – She bloomed, she blossomed, she decayed. – And under this tree her body we laid.

Here lies Matthew Mudd, Death did him no hurt; when alive he was Mudd, but now he's only dirt

Well this was fun, let's dit again sometime.

'Gone fishing', the sign said that hung upon the door. An Angel had put it there, God Was waiting on the shore.

Exit Burbridge

One Errant Female Has Fun – The Ornament of Her Generation – Beautiful. Witty. Brilliant. Talented. Elegant. Charming. Frugal and Modest. – Erected By Herself

Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

My father and mother were both insane. I inherited the terrible stain. My grandfather, grandmother, Aunts and uncles Were lunatics all And yet died of carbuncles

A Finished Artist

Alass Frend Joseph, His End was Almost Sudden, as thou the mandate came express from heaven his foot it slip and he did fall help, help he cries & that was all.