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She loved me and my grandchildren reverenced her. She bathed my feet and kept my socks well darned.

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Here lies Dave Jordan – His last words were a shame… 'There's a light at the end of the tunnel'… Unfortunately it was a train

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James B. McCoy – Member Co. D 17th Iowa Inf. which mustered in 1165 men and mustered out 42. Participated in 19 battles and 3 sieges. Never Applied For A Pension.

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Ebenezer Dockwood aged forty seven. A miser and a hypocrite and never went to Heaven.

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A Finished Artist

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“Here lies my wife in earthy mold, Who when she died and naught but scold. Good friends go softly in your walking lest she should wake and rise up talking”

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… Going! Going!! Gone!!!

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A rum cough carried him off.

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My wife lies here. All my tears cannot bring her back, Therefore, I weep.

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Louise. – The Unfortunate.

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Peter Letig was his name, Heaven I hope his station, Baltimore was his dwelling place and Christ is his salvation.

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Agreeable to the memory of Mrs Alinda Tewksbury. She was not a beleiver [sic] in the Christian idolitry.

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Here lies Kelly, we buried him today. He lived the life of Riley, when Riley was away!

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Of pneumonia supervening consumption complicated with other diseases, the main symptoms of which was insanity.

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Here lies Lotta Dust.

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No doctor ever physicked me, was never near my side. But when fever came I thought of the name, and that was enough – I died.

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Reader pass on and ne'er waste your time, On bad biography and bitter rhyme. For what I am this cumb'rous clay insures, And what I was, is no affair of yours.

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

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This is to the memory of Ellen Hill, a woman who would always have her will. She snubbed her husband but she made good bread. Yet on the whole he’s rather glad she’s dead. She whipped her children and she drank her gin, whipped virtue out and whipped the devil in. May all such women go to some great fold, where they through all eternity may scold.

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Sacred to Wm Collis boat-steerer of the ship St George of New Bedford, who by the will of Almighty God was killed by a whale off this Island

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Here lies Elizabeth, my wife for 47 years, and this is the first damn thing she ever done to oblige me.

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