• 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.
• In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery: Here lies an Atheist. All dressed up. And no place to go.
• On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia: Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102. The Good Die Young.
• In a London, England cemetery: Here lies Ann Mann, Who lived an old maid, But died an old Mann. Dec. 8, 1767.
• 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.
• In a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery: Here lies Johnny Yeast. Pardon me, For not rising.
• In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania, cemetery: Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake. Stepped on the gas. Instead of the brake.
• 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.
• A lawyer's epitaph in England: Sir John Strange. Here lies an honest lawyer, And that is Strange.
• 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.
• In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England: On the 22nd of June, Jonathan Fiddle Went out of tune.
• 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.
• On a grave from the 1880s in Nantucket, Massachusetts: Under the sod and under the trees, Lies the body of Jonathan Pease. His not here, there's only the pod. Pease shelled out and went to God.
• In a cemetery in England: Remember man, as you walk by, As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so shall you be. Remember this 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.
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