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We wanted to help get everyone in the Halloween mood so we put together this collection of gravestone humour to get you in the spirit .  (get it...)?

You'd think a tombstone would be the last place to find something funny but then again the world's full of surprises!  Besides, who says just because you're dead you can't still have a sense of humour!

We hope you enjoy this collection of funny and famous tombstone quotes.  You can even make your own Halloween gravestone decorations using these as humourous epitaphs!

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Some Funny Epitaphs from All Over the World

I Told You I Was Sick!

"Reader --if cash thou art in want of any,
Dig four feet deep and find a Penny."
Epitaph of John Penny, Wimborne, England.

"In loving memory of Ellen Shannon, aged 25,
Who was accidentally burned March 21, 1870,
By the explosion of a lamp filled with R.E. Danforth's
Non-explosive burning fluid."
Epitaph in cemetery at Girard, Pa.

"Solomon Peas.
Peas is not here,
Only the pod.
Peas shelled out,
Went home to God."
Epitaph in a cemetery near Wetumpka, Ala.

"Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake,
Stepped on the gas instead of the brake."
Gravestone near Uniontown, Pa.

"Here lies John Yeast,
Pardon me for not rising."
Cemetary in Ruidoso, N.M.

"Here lies Lester Moore,
Four slugs from a forty-four.
No Les,
No Moore."
Boothill Cemetery, Tombstone Ariz.

"I Told You I Was Sick"
Cemetary in Key West, Fla.

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Funny Gravestones of Celebrities from the early 1900's

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Ilka Chase: I've finally gotten to the bottom of things.

Dorothy Parker: "Involved in a plot."

Clive Brook: "Excuse me for not rising."

Lionel Barrymore: "Well, I've played everything but a harp."

Walter Winchell: "Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well."

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More great epitaphs...

"Come blooming youths, as you pass by ,
And on these lines do cast an eye.
As you are now, so once was I;
As I am now, so must you be;
Prepare for death and follow me."

Now, that isn't funny but then underneath, someone had added:

"To follow you
I am not content,
How do I know
Which way you went."

Now that's funny!

On the grave of a woman who died in 1984. Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her son, owner of Zeezo's Magic Castle in Colorado Springs, stated that his mother had been married to a Texan who is buried in Texas.

"I would
rather be here
than in Texas."

On a hanged sheep thief:

"Here lies the body of
Thomas Kemp.
Who lived by wool
and died by hemp."

James B. McCoy left a message on his 1899 tombstone proclaiming his independence from the United States Government.

"Member Co. D 17th Iowa Inf. which mustered in 1165 men and mustered out 42. Participated in 19 battles and 3 sieges. Never Applied For A Pension."

"Here lies the body of Arkansas Jim.
We made the mistake, But the joke's on him."

"Here lies a man named Zeke.
Second fastest draw in Cripple Creek."

"Bill Blake
Was hanged by mistake."

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