Epitaphs

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Epitaphs
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Epitaph

• An inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in
  memory of the one buried there a brief
  statement commemorating or epitomizing a deceased
  person or something past. (Mirriam-Websters
  Collegiate
• Dictionary)

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Some Real Epitaphs

• He Rests In Pieces!

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Some Real Epitaphs

• He Rests In Pieces!
• Widower, on her husbands stone The Light of My
  Life Has Gone Out!

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Some Real Epitaphs

• He Rests In Pieces!
• Widower, on her husbands stone The Light of My
  Life Has Gone Out!
• One year later, she had added I Have Struck
  Another Match!

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Some Real Epitaphs

• He Rests In Pieces!
• Widower, on her husbands stone The Light of My
  Life Has Gone Out!
• One year later, she had added I Have Struck
  Another Match!
• She Did The Best She Could!

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Some Real Epitaphs

• The Pretty Flowers That Blossom Here Are
  Fertilized By Gertie Greer!

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Some Real Epitaphs

• The Pretty Flowers That Blossom Here Are
  Fertilized By Gertie Greer!
• Within This Grave Do Lie / Back To Back My Wife
  I / When The Last Trump The Air Shall Fill / If
  She Gets Up, Ill Just Lie Still!

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Some Real Epitaphs

• Sacred To The Memory of Anthony Drake / Who Died
  For Peace Quietness Sake / His Wife Was
  Constantly Scolding And Scoffin / So He Sought
  For Repose In A Twelve-Dollar Coffin! (Massachuse
  tts, c. 1800)

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Some Real Epitaphs

• The Children of Israel Wanted Bread / And The
  Lord He Sent Them Manna / Old Clerk Wallace
  Wanted A Wife / And The Devil He Sent Him
  Anna! (England, c. 1770)

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Some Real Epitaphs

• Here Lies The Body of W.W. / He Comes No More To
  Trouble U, Trouble U / Where Hes Gone, or How He
  Fares / No One Knows, And No One
  Cares! (England, c. 1847)

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Some Real Epitaphs

• Here Lies Lester Moore / Four Slugs From A 44 /
  No Less, No More! (Tombstone, Arizona, c.
  1880)

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Some Real Epitaphs

• Here Lies Lester Moore / Four Slugs From A 44 /
  No Less, No More! (Tombstone, Arizona, c.
  1880)
• He Called Bill Smith A Liar (Cripple Creek,
  Colorado, c. 1875)

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Some Real Epitaphs

• W.C. Fields -- On The Whole, Id Rather Be In
  Philadelphia!
• Brigham Young -- Born On This Spot, 1802 / A Man
  of Much Courage And Superb Equipment
• Alexander -- Here A Mound Suffices For One For
  One For Whom The World Was Not Large Enough

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Some Real Epitaphs

• Benjamin Franklin -- The Body of B. Franklin,
  Printer (Like The Cover of An Old Book, Its
  Contents Worn Out And Stript of Its Lettering And
  Guilding) Lies Here, Food For Worms. But The Work
  Shall Not Be Lost, For It Will (As He Believed)
  Appear Once More In A New And More Elegant
  Edition, Revised And Corrected By The Author!

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Epitaphs Writtenby God
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Some Good Epitaphs
He Was Pleasing To God!
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Some Good Epitaphs
Enoch He Was Pleasing To God!
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Some Good Epitaphs
Abounding With Deeds of Kindness Charity!
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Some Good Epitaphs
Dorcus Abounding With Deeds of Kindness Charity!
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Some Good Epitaphs
Humble More Than Any Man!
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Some Good Epitaphs
Moses Humble More Than Any Man!
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Some Good Epitaphs
A Man After Gods Own Heart!
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Some Good Epitaphs
David A Man After Gods Own Heart!
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Some Good Epitaphs
A Good Man, Full of The H.S. of Faith!
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Some Good Epitaphs
Barnabas A Good Man, Full of The H.S. of Faith!
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Some Good Epitaphs
A Blameless Man, No One Like Him In All The
Earth!
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Some Good Epitaphs
Job A Blameless Man, No One Like Him In All The
Earth!
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Some Good Epitaphs
An Israelite Indeed In Whom There Is No
Deceit!
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Some Good Epitaphs
Nathaniel An Israelite Indeed In Whom
There Is No Deceit!
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Some Good Epitaphs
Fought, Finished, Kept!
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Some Good Epitaphs
Paul Fought, Finished, Kept!
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Some Good Epitaphs
Asleep In Jesus!
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Some Good Epitaphs
Deceased Saints! Asleep In Jesus!
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Some Bad Epitaphs
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Some Bad Epitaphs
He Departed With No Ones Regret!
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Some Bad Epitaphs
Jehoram He Departed With No Ones Regret!
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Some Bad Epitaphs
Forsaking The Right Way!
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Some Bad Epitaphs
Balaam Forsaking The Right Way!
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Some Bad Epitaphs
Church at Ephesus They Left Their First Love!
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Some Bad Epitaphs
Church at Ephesus They Left Their First Love!
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Some Bad Epitaphs
Hymenaeu Alexander Their Faith Was
Shipwrecked!
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Some Bad Epitaphs
Hymenaeus Alexander Their Faith Was
Shipwrecked!
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Some Bad Epitaphs
He Loved This Present World!
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Some Bad Epitaphs
Demas He Loved This Present World!
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Some Bad Epitaphs
The Rich Man In Hades He Lifted Up His Eyes!
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Some Bad Epitaphs
The Rich Man In Hades He Lifted Up His Eyes!
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Some Bad Epitaphs
Some / Many They Did Not Obey The Gospel!
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Some Bad Epitaphs
Some / Many They Did Not Obey The Gospel!
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Some Bad Epitaphs
Almost Persuaded!
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Some Bad Epitaphs
Agrippa Almost Persuaded!
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Epitaphs Writtenby God

• Cornelius -- He feared God with all his house!

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Epitaphs Writtenby God

• Cornelius -- He feared God with all his house!
• Those who died in the Lord -- At Rest!

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If You Were To Die Today, God Wrote Your
Epitaph, Which One of These Would It Be?