Some Frontier Epitaphs

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Please feel free to add to this list.

He was young and brave, and fair,
But the Indians raised his hair.
(young cowboy killed in Indian fight on Goodnight Trail)


Here lies the body of Jeems Hambrick
     Who was accidentally shot
on the banks of the pacus river
     by a young man
he was accidentally shot with one of the large
colt's revolver with no stopper for the cock
to rest on it was one of the old-fashion kind
brass mounted and of such is the kingdom of heaven.


Played five aces,
Now playing a harp.
(a clumsy gambler)


He had sand in his craw,
But was slow on the draw,
So they laid him out under the daisies.
(gambler Charles Storms, killed by Luke Short)


Too many irons in the fire.
(placed over the grave of a cattle rustler)
     

[Silver Creek Slim]

Too many irons in the fire.
(placed over the grave of a cattle rustler)

Slim

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

That one was special for you, slim.

[Silver Creek Slim]

That one was special for you, slim.

Thanks. 

Slim

[Will Ketchum]

Well someone has to include one of the most famous

       Here Lies Lester Moore
       4 shots from a 44
       No Les No More



Will Ketchum

[Hill Beachy]

WILDCAT KELLY

For Wildcat Kelly
Life Held No Terror
Forgetting To Duck
Was His Only Error

From the movie"Don't Fence Me In" (Starring Roy Rogers and Gabby Hayes)

[Russ T Chambers]

"Here lies the body of Martha Goff--
She had two sore legs and a badish cough--
It wasn't her cough as carried her off--
But it was a coffin they carried her off in."

Butte, Montana

[Russ T Chambers]

Ran accross another one:

   EDWARD
    HURLEY
SHOT JAN 17
      1873
   HE DRANK
   TO MUCH
  AND LOVED
   UNWISELY

DODGE CITY KANSAS

[Delmonico]

Of course there's the one from the song "When the Works All Done this Fall." 

We all know Charley died at sunrise and had no tombstone at his head, just a little board and this is what it said.

          Charley died at day break 
              he died from a fall   
        he'll not see his mother boys
     when the works all done this fall.

Not a little board for this much writin' and who would have the time ta carve it.  "We're burnin Daylight."