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Epithets
Tombstones Engravings of the famous
The mortal remains of Ethan Allen,
fighter, writer, statesman, and philosopher,
lie in this cemetery beneath the marble statue.
His spirit is in Vermont now.
Ethan Allen
(Greenmount Cemetery; Burlington, Vermont)
Susan Brownell Anthony
(Mount Hope Cemetery; Rochester, New York) kata ton daimona eay toy
Jim Morrison
(Pere Lachaise Cemetery;Paris, France)
{True to his own spirit.}
He thinketh no evil
Henry Ward Beecher
(Green-Wood Cemetery; Brooklyn, New York) Truth and History.
21 Men.
The Boy Bandit King --
He Died As He Lived.
William H. Bonney "Billy the Kid"
(Fort Sumner Cemetery; Fort Sumner New Mexico) A star on earth - a star in heaven
Karen Carpenter
(Forest Lawn; Cyprus, California)
My Jesus Mercy
Alphonse Capone
(Mt. Carmel Cemetery; Chicago, Illinois)
An American Soldier
And Defender of the Constitution
Jefferson Davis
(Hollywood Cemetery; Richmond, Virginia) A Gentle Man and a Gentleman
Jack Dempsey
(Southampton Cemetery; Southampton, New York) The Greatest Blues Singer in the World
Will Never Stop Singing
Bessie Smith
(Mount Lawn Cemetery; Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania)
...that nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so
loyal as love
Wyatt Earp
(Hills of Eternity; Colma, California)
Equity-Integrity
Marshall Field
(Graceland Cemetery; Chicago, Illinois)
The Body of
B. Franklin, Printer
Like the Cover of an old Book
Its Contents turn out
And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding
Lies here. Food for Worms
For, it will as he believed
appear once more
In a new and more elegant Edition
corrected and improved
By the Author
Benjamin Franklin
(Christ Church Burial Grounds; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Scott Joplin
(St. Michael's Cemetery; East Elmhurst, New York) VOCATUS ATQUE
NON VOCATUS
DEUS ADERIT
Carl Jung
(Flutern Cemetery; Fluntern (Zurich), Switzerland)
{Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.}
Workers of all lands unite.
The philosophers have only
interpreted the world in various ways;
the point is to change it.
Karl Marx
(Highgate Cemetery; London, England)
She hath done what she could
Carrie Amelia Nation
(Belton Cemetery; Belton, Missouri) As the flowers are all made sweeter
by the sunshine and the dew,
so this old world is made brighter
by the lives of folks like you.
Bonnie Parker
(Crown Hill Cemetery; Dallas, Texas) A friend to honesty and a foe to crime
Allan Pinkerton
(Graceland Cemetery; Chicago, Illinois) In loving memory from the Family
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
(Hollywood Memorial Park; Hollywood, California) Chief of the Hunkpapa Sioux
Sitting Bull
(Post Cemetery; Fort Yates, North Dakota) Here Rests in
Honored Glory
An American
Soldier
Known But to God
Unknown Soldier
(Arlington National Cemetery; Virginia)
Thank you for all the love you gave
me.
There could be no one stronger.
Thank you for the many beautiful songs.
They will live long and longer.
Hank Williams
(Oakwood Cemetery; Montgomery, Alabama)