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Dead funny gravestones and farewells to remember

JAMES O'BRIEN,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 6:46 AM

Updated Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 7:48 AM

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oldboreen | Dec 19, 2010, 02:09 PM EST

MY favourite epitaph-'Was that it?'

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Mayosligo | Dec 18, 2010, 12:50 PM EST

Intriging! My Great Great grand uncle, Bryan Byrne born 1800 in Ireland, has a stone in the Irish section of the Vincennes Indiana Mt Calvary Cemetery. He died in 1865. No other info is available after much searching. I visit his stone frequently and ask him to enlighten me about his life. So far nothing.There are hundreds of Irish buried here.

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greenferrett101 | Dec 16, 2010, 02:57 PM EST

Number 2 is not that funny. More sad

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corkyone | Dec 16, 2010, 12:43 PM EST

Great!

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norinalundy | Dec 16, 2010, 11:39 AM EST

This is funny...I always told my son, that when I die, there will not be any information about my date of birth, etc. It would read, "Matthew, you are 100% responsible for all you do in life", Mom

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PolinDeB | Dec 16, 2010, 12:36 AM EST

Ah we miss the characters.. Hesh McCormack - oft lost election candidate for Laois-Offaly. He would "shoe the footless" and "hitch a lift up to the Dail with Oliver J (FG TD) if he won"

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PolinDeB | Dec 15, 2010, 08:47 PM EST

Ah, we all came in the same way and we all go the same way. Birth and death, the great equalizers.

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whitebirtch | Dec 15, 2010, 07:25 PM EST

I saw one that read,"Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake- who stepped on the gas insteadd of the brake" Calvery Cemetary, Queens N. Y. USA

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mhichil | Dec 15, 2010, 03:43 PM EST

drive carefully!

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tanseyj | Dec 15, 2010, 03:00 PM EST

Previously...Here Lies Lester Moore Two Shots From a Forty-Four No Less, No Moore.......Boot Hill, Tombstone, Arizona

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JerryLynch | Dec 15, 2010, 12:43 PM EST

The comedian, ("I don't get no respect")Rodney Dangerfield has carved on his tombstone, "There goes the neighborhood."

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cjnoonan | Dec 15, 2010, 12:40 PM EST

funy!

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mcdolan | Dec 15, 2010, 12:37 PM EST

Had a good chuckle!

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mcdolan | Dec 15, 2010, 11:50 AM EST

Love this, I'll have to find the book! Amazon here I come!

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Schenck2 | Dec 15, 2010, 11:46 AM EST

My father's cousin had the "I told you I was ill" put on her stone in IL back in the "90s. His other cousin thought it delightful. Have to see her stone as I wonder what she had put on it. Must be an "Irish thing" to really enjoy leaving and reading interesting gravestones.

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