PATRON + TOMBSTONE TUESDAY – Funny epitaphs…

Epitaphs tombstones

Donna R. Causey, resident of Alabama, was a teacher in the public school system for twenty years. When she retired, Donna found time to focus on her lifetime passion for historical writing. She developed the websites www.alabamapioneers and www.daysgoneby.me All her books can be purchased at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. She has authored numerous genealogy books. RIBBON OF LOVE: A Novel Of Colonial America (TAPESTRY OF LOVE) is her first novel in the Tapestry of Love about her family where she uses actual characters, facts, dates and places to create a story about life as it might have happened in colonial Virginia. Faith and Courage: Tapestry of Love (Volume 2) is the second book and the third FreeHearts: A Novel of Colonial America (Book 3 in the Tapestry of Love Series) Discordance: The Cottinghams (Volume 1) is the continuation of the story. . For a complete list of books, visit Donna R Causey

Steve Bryant February 9, 2016

Politicians of “old” were quite the orators, and, the engravers followed their “sayings” as truth…thus, this.
Rebecca Green McAnnally February 9, 2016

There was a headstone in the Helena cemetery that read:
” Stop friend, as you pass by.. As you are now so once was I. As I am now, soon you will be, prepare therefore to follow me.”
Cara May 8, 2018

At the mausoleum in Memory Gardens (Cullman), there is an epitaph that reads: “I’d rather be shopping at Walmart.”

When my sister and I were visiting, we were very somber, reading other death dates, then came upon that one-liner. It made us laugh, and I decided that a sense of humor truly is a way to be remembered fondly.