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English Gravestone Sayings
The English may have a reputation for a stiff upper lip, but as Monty Python and Benny Hill have shown, they can also be quite fun jokesters! Take a look at these interesting epitaphs!
Here lieth
Mary - the wife of John Ford
We hope her soul is gone to the Lord
But if for Hell she changed this life
She had better be there than be John Ford's wife
-- Wiltshire, England
Here lies Ann Mann;
She lived an old maid and
She died an Old Mann
-- Bath Abbey, England
On the 22nd of June
~ Jonathan Fiddle ~
Went out of tune
-- Hartscombe, England
Beneath this grassy mound now rests
One Edgar Oscar Earl,
Who to another hunter looked
Exactly like a squirrel.
-- England
Sir John Strange
Here lies an honest lawyer,
And that is strange!
-- England
Grim death took me
Without any warning
I was well at night
And dead in the morning
-- Kent, England
Reader if cash thou art
In want of any
Dig 4-feet deep
And thou wilt find a Penny
-- Wimborne, England
The children of Israel wanted bread
And the Lord sent them manna
Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife
And the Devil sent him Anna
-- Ribbesford, England
OWEN MOORE
Gone away
Owin' more
Than he could pay
-- London, England
Here lies the body
Of Margaret Bent
She kicked up her heels
And away she went
-- Dorsetshire, England
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