Epitaphs from the 1800s

When doing research in genealogy I sometimes come across odd, amusing and/or downright disturbing facts. For example, I have found some tombstone inscriptions that are at the same time funny and sinister, specially when written on a child's headstone. Here are some of the ones which caught my eyes.

Death is debt

to Nature due

Which I have paid

And so must you

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I am dead now, soon you will be. 

Prepare for death and follow me.

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The fairest flesh,

Is buried in the dust,

Prepare for death,

For follow me you must

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My friends as you pass by,

Remember you was born to die,

I in the flower was cut down,

Lie withering like the grass thats mown

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Our life is ever on the wing,

And death is ever nigh;

The moment when our lives begins,

We all begin to die.