Mainers are well-known for their plain spoken humor and deadpan delivery even in the graveyard. Check out some of examples of cemetary humor from around the state:
Winslow Maine:
In Memory of Beza. Wood
Departed this life Nov. 2, 1837
Aged 45 yrs.
Here lies one Wood
enclosed in wood
One Wood
Within another.
The outer wood
Is very good;
We cannot praise
The other.
Orient, Maine:
William Deering, 1839, age 49
For me the world hath had its charms
And I've embraced them in my arms,
Counted its joys and sought its bliss
Although I knew the end was this.
Kittery, Maine
We can but mourn our loss,
Though wretched was his life.
Death took him from the cross,
Erected by his wife.
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