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I am anxiously expecting you. A.D. 1827 — Here I am! – A.D. 1867

Poems and Epitaphs are but stuff – Here lies Zed Blacksword – that’s enough

DEADMAN

A man of letters it seems was he; the college made him L.L.D. The Order a P.G.W.C. Grim death has given him the G.B., and may his ashes R.I.P.

Due to lack of ground in this cemetery, two bodies are buried in this one plot. One of them was a politician, the other was an honest man.

To the memory of Ric Richards who by a gangrene first lost a toe, then a leg and lastly his life.

ASSMAN

I made an ash of myself

Faults I May Have – Being Wrong is Not One of Them

Sacred to the memory of Major James Brush, Royal Artillery, who was killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol by his orderly…

Here lieth the body of my lovely dear wife Anne, who plays the poker machines whenever she can.

Rab McBeth – who died for the want of another breath.

Mary, Mary, quite contrary How does your garden grow? Quite well, I bet, Since it's well fed By her body decomposing below.

The Lord saw good; I was lopping off wood, and down fell from the tree; I met with a check, and I broke my neck, and so Death lopped off me.

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

The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer like the coyer of an old book its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here food for worms. – Yet the work itself shall not be lost for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition corrected and amended by the author.

Here lies Ann Mann, who lived an old maid, but died an old Mann…

Neal Keven – His accounts were found square to a cent.

… Going! Going!! Gone!!!

Erected to the memory of John Macfarlane. Drowned in the waters of Leith – by a few affectionate friends.

I am woman here me roar. And boy did she.