Tombstone Humor - Twisted Tombstones - Unusual Stuff in the Graveyard?

Question

Share your epitaphs, unusual tombstones, or other ghoulish humor you've seen in the graveyard. I'm not seeking ghost stories, unless it was an intended thing by the person planted there! I look forward to some great answers! Thanks!

Answer 1

Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York:
Born 1903-Died 1942
Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the
car was on the way down.
It was.
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In a London, England cemetery:
Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann.
Dec. 8, 1767
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In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery:
Anna Wallace:
The children of Israel wanted bread,
And the Lord sent them manna.
Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife,
And the Devil sent him Anna.
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In a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery:
Here lies Johnny Yeast.
Pardon me
For not rising.
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In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania, cemetery:
Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake.
Stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake.
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In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery:
Here lays The Kid.
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger
But slow on the draw.
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A lawyer's epitaph in England:
Sir John Strange.
Here lies an honest lawyer,
And that is Strange.
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John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery:
Reader, if cash thou art
In want of any,
Dig 6 feet deep;
And thou wilt find a Penny.
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In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England:
On the 22nd of June,
Jonathan Fiddle
Went out of tune.
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Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont
Here lies the body of our Anna -
Done to death by a banana.
It wasn't the fruit that laid her low,
But the skin of the thing that made her go.
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In a cemetery in England:
Remember man, as you walk by,
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, you soon will be.
Prepare yourself and follow me.


To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone:
To follow you I'll not consent
Until I know which way you went

Answer 2

Ellen Shannon aged 26
Who was fatally burned
March 21-1-1870
by the explosion of a lamp
filled with
R.E.Danforth's Non-Explosive
Burning Fluid

Here lies an atheist
all dressed up
and no plave to go

Here lies the body of John Mound
Lost at Sea and never found

Here lies Lester Moore
Four slugs from a-44
No Les, No Moore

An auctioner named
KNIGHT
Good Knight
Going
Going
Gone
1868

Here lies the body of Solomon Peas
Under the daisies and under the trees
Peas is not here only the Pod
Peas shelled out went home to God

Answer 3

In Iola Ks. there is a small grave yard at the edge of town. The sign at the enterance says
"ONE WAY" , & it points into the cemetary!
For real!

Answer 4

Here lies the guy who was not very honest but still a honest guy.
died while saving a worm from an oncoming truck

Answer 5

One tombstone said, "Now do you believe that I was really sick?"

Answer 6

This one is to be used on my hypochondriac cousin grave....(this cousin has had every disease imaginable).........."see, I told you that I was sick"

Answer 7

and i saw one that said "I'll be back".. he was an arny fan

Answer 8

well maybe