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Entombed within this vault a lawyer lies, who, fame assureth us was just and wise, an able advocate and honest too; that's wondrous strange, indeed, if it be true.

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

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As a stranger she did die, in strange lands she doth lie. Here by strangers she was laid, and her funeral charges paid.

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Exit Burbridge

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Toothless Nell (Alice Chambers) Killed 1876 in a Dance Hall brawl. Her last words: "Circumstances led me to this end."

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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.

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This wasn’t my idea

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GELOW – Francis & Yvonne – On Vacation – Hold mail – Lived

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Here lies Donald and his wife Janett McPhee, aged 40 he and 30 she.

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Here lies my corpse who was the man, That lov'd a sop in dripping pan, But now believe me I am dead, Now here the pan stands at my head, Still for sop to the last I cry'd, But could not eat and so I died, My neighbours they perhaps may laugh, When they do read my epitaph.

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His virtues and his pills are so well known, that envy can’t confine them under stone.

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Rebecca Freeland, 1741 – She drank good ale, good punch and wine, and lived to the age of 99.

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Here lies John Auricular, Who in the ways of the Lord walked perpendicular.

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Here lies Slip Mcvey. He would be here today, but bad whiskey and a fast gun put him away

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Thorp’s Corpse

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Under this stone Lies Billy Joe Bob Stealing chickens Was his last job

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Here lies the bones of David Jones, Laid both dead and dumb. He read a law and plead a cause But died from drinking rum.

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Here lies the body of Miriam Wood, formerly wife to John Smith. A woman well beloved of all her neighbors for her care of small folks' education, their number being great, that when she died she scarcely left her mate: so wise discreet was her behaviours that she was well esteemed by neighbors. She lived in love with all to die so let her rest to eternitye.

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Cold is my bed, but oh, I love it, – for colder are my friends above it.

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Here lies the body of Mary Morgan. Like the morning dew she glistened, exhaled, and went to heaven.

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Here lies Charles. Had six guns Needed seven. Now he is in heaven

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