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Some humorous epitaphs found on tombstones and grave markers in the U.S.

 

The most famous inscription isn't on the headstone of a well-known entertainment or historical figure, but an unknown Wells Fargo agent killed in a shoot-out over a battered package. Customer complaints were made and handled a bit differently in those days.

 

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The grave is located in Boothill Cemetery in Tucson, Arizona. Unfortunately, the epitaph may have been added in the 1940s when Boothill Cemetery was restored. The cemetery had fallen into total disrepair by the late 1920s and most of the original grave markers (wooden crosses) haqd long since disappeared. Records exist for only about 200 of the 300 graves and some of the markers or headstones after 1940 are believed to be jokes as they name fictional characters who were well-known in the early 1900s but forgotten today.

 

Another from Boothil Cemeery;

 

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Some assorted gravestones. The pics are all lifted from the Internet.

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My plan is to be cremated and put in an urn with an inscription that reads as a curse of bad luck to any of my ancestors who do not prominently display the urn their home. I haven't got the wording just right yet... but my sister or my niece are going to want to kill me at my funeral.

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In the 1950's, there was a TV series in the U.S. called Tombstone Territory that ran for two seasons. The sheriff in the series carried a sawed-off shotgun as his main weapon, which was historically accurate for many town sheriffs in the West. I was seven when I watched it. One line of dialogue has stuck with me through the years: "This riot gun will open you up like a ripe watermelon."

 

 

Tombstone was a very interesting town. The reputation of lawlessness in the Old West was very exaggerated, largely the creation of fiction writers and later cemented by radio, movies and TV. Historians have said there was a lot less crime in the West 1850-1900 than in New York, London or Paris.

 

But Tombstone was indeed a wile-open boom town. Prostitution and gambling were big "industries." One famous madam, Dutch Annie, was called the "queen of the red light district. When she died, about 1,000 buggies were said to have followed her hearse to Boothill Cemetery.

 

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