Poignant

Samual Clemens (Mark Twain), his wife, daughters, and son in law are buried in Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira, New York. For a daughter who died before him, Clemens wrote this epitaph: In the memory of Jean Lampton Clemens
A most dear daughter
Her Desolate Father
Sets this Stone
After life's fitful fever
She Sleeps Well
George B. Kupfer died at the age of eight; San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, California:A precious one from us has gone
A voice we loved is still
A place is vacant in our home
which never can be filled
Joseph A. and Phil M. White in Peter's Cemetery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, reads: To live in the hearts
we left behind
is not to die
One small red boulder in Old Deerfield Cemetery, Deerfield Massachusetts, is carved: Ma Dyed Novem
7 Anno 1696 Christopher Mark Zerbe, Pioneer Cemetery, Julian, California: Gold is where you find it A young woman buried in Old Burial Ground, Jaffrey, New Hampshire: Affliction for long time I bore
Physicians were in vain
Till God did please and death did seize
To ease me of my pain Cause of Death epitaph found in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, New Jersey: That Cherry Tree of luscious fruit
Beguiled him too high, a branch did break
and down he fell and broke his neck and
died on July 13th, 1862 Epitaph in Brookside Cemetery, Englewood, New Jersey: When I Held You Tight
All The Stars Seemed So Much Brighter
They Lit Up The Night

Pious:

 

Epitaph from a grave in Boca Raton Memorial Cemetery and Mausoleum, Boca Raton Florida, reads: In God we trust To God we pray With God we live Bible verses inscribed in a headstone for a family in Woodside Cemetery, Dumont, New Jersey: Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. Rev. 14:13 We which have believed do enter into rest. Herb 4:3 Waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Cor. 1:7

Historic:

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn in Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois: The Rebel Girl Fighter for Working Class EmancipationA piece of African American History is revealed on Amos Fortune (1710-1801) in Old Burial Ground, Jaffrey, New Hampshire: Amos Fortune, who was born free in Africa a slave in America, he purchased liberty, professed Christianity, lived reputably, and died hopefully. Harriet Tubman's epitaph in Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, New York: Heroine of the Underground Railroad Nurse and Scout in the Civil War Born about 1820 in Maryland Died March 10, 1913, at Auburn, New York "Servant of God, Well Done" The struggle for woman's rights and equality is noted in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's epitaph in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York: …Called a Woman's Rights Convention First in History at Seneca Falls, New York, July 19, 1848 Demanded Votes for Women…Carrie Chapman Catt and May Garrett Hay spearheaded the final drive for woman's suffrage their joint epitaph in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York reads: Here lie two united together in friendship For thirty-eight years through constant service to a great cause.Hideyo Noguchi discovered the causes of several diseases he is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York his epitaph reads: Through devotion to science He lived and died for humanityAn epitaph in Spanish from one of America's immigrants in Pioneer Cemetery, Watsonville, California, in English it reads: Mami, when you left, you took half my life.

Humorous:

Willian H. Hahn Jr. in Princeton Cemetery, Princeton New Jersey: I told you I was sick Epitaph in Enfield, Connecticut: In memory of Deacon Ezekiel Pease who died June 20th, A.D 1799 Aged 89 years wanting 12 days. What lied here is only the pod; He shelled out his Pease and went to his God Charles A. Stubbs Buried in Boca Raton Municipal Cemetery, Boca Raton, Florida: Gone Fishing Dutch Conkling buried in Brookside Cemetery, Englewood, New Jersey: Gone Bowling Again Source of this Epitaph is unknown, but it reads: Soon ripe Soon rotten Soon Gone But not forgotten A woman in New Jersey had a recipe carved in her gravestone along with the words: I always said the only way you would get this recipe is over my dead bodyThis epitaph is in the cemetery in Skaneateles, New York: Underneath this pile of stones Lies all that's left of Sally Jones. Her name was Lord, is was not Jones, But Jones was used to rhyme with stones.