The Humourous, the Unusual, and the Simply Odd: Tombstones pt 1


I was Carolina Born
and Carolina bred
and here I lay
Carolina dead!

..found on the head stone of a southern lady buried at Chapel Cemetery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Sometimes, our head stones capture something we’d like to say to those we leave behind; an eternal reminder of our last words, or a memory we’d like them to carry forever. Such as the tombstone of one man in Round Rock, TX which reads:

I Told You I Was Sick

Nothing like getting one last "I told you so"!

Sometimes a John or Jane Doe dies seemingly without any notice, and the grave site of one such John Doe displays the sad epitaph:

Here Lies The Body Of A Man Who Died
Nobody Mourned - Nobody Cried
How He Lived - How He Fared
Nobody Knows - Nobody Cared

The death of babies is always so tragic and particularly sad, since children have so little time to enjoy the rewards life has to offer. One babe in Ashby de la Zooch, England, is memorialised with these words:

Ope'd my eyes
Took a peep.
Didn't like it
Went back to sleep.

Part 2 of this article can be found here!

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