Apparently genuine epitaphs...
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Harry Edsel Smith
Albany, New York
1903 – 1942
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Looked up the elevator shaft
to see if the car was on the way down.
It was.
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Anna Hopewell
Enosburg Falls, Vermont
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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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Ellen Shannon
Girard, Pennsylvania
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Fatally burned March 21, 1870
by the explosion of a lamp filled with
"R.E. Danforth’s Non-Explosive Burning Fluid"
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Jonathan Blake
Uniontown, Pennsylvania
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Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake.
Stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake.
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Abraham Beaulieu
Born 15 September 1822
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To the Memory of Abraham Beaulieu
Accidentally shot 4th April 1844
As a mark of affection from his brother
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Margaret Daniels
Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond, Virginia
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She always said
her feet were killing her
but nobody believed her.
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Thomas Mann and Janet Greene
Over their dead bodies: Yankee epitaphs
Dorset House Publishing
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