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| Abraham Lincoln | | "Now He Belongs to the Ages" |
| Allan Pinkerton | | "A Friend to Honesty and a Foe to Crime" |
Graceland Cemetery; Chicago, Illinois
| Alphonse Capone | | "My Jesus Mercy" |
Mt Carmel Cemetery, Chicago Illinois
| Anne & Charles Lindenbergh | | "If I Take the Wings of the Morning and Dwell in the Uttermost Parts of the Sea" |
Palapala Hoomu Congregational Cemetery; Kipahula Maui Hawaii
| Barbara La Marr | | "With God in the Joy of Beauty and Youth" |
Hollywood Memorial Park; Hollywood California
| Bela Lugosi | | "Beloved Father" |
Holy Cross Cemetery; Culver City, California
| Bert Convy | | "His Star Will Forever Shine" |
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Hollywood Hills California. American game show host and panelist, actor and singer.
| Bessie Smith | | "The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing" |
Mount Lawn Cemetery; Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania
| Bette Davis | | "She Did It the Hard Way" |
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Hollywood Hills California
| Billy Wilder | | "I'm a Writer, but then Nobody's Perfect." |
| Buddy Rich | | "One of a Kind" |
Westwood Memorial Park; Westwood, California
| Carl Jung | | "Vocatus Atque, Non Vocatus Deus Aderit" |
Flutern Cemetery; Flutern Switzerland. Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.
| Carrie Amelia Nation | | "Faithful to the Cause of Prohibition - She Hath Done What She Could" |
Belton Cemetery; Belton, Missouri
| Charles Bukowski | | "Don't Try" |
| C.S. Lewis | | "Man Must Endure His Going Hence" |
Headington Quarry Churchyard; Oxfordshire England
| Dean Martin | | "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime" |
Westwood Memorial Cemetery, Los Angeles California
| Douglas Fairbanks, Sr | | "Good Night Sweet Prince and a Flight of Angels Sing to Thy Rest" |
Hollywood Memorial Park; Hollywood California
| Edgar Allan Poe | | "Quoth the Raven “Nevermore”" |
Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery; Baltimore, Maryland
| Edward I of England | | "Hic Est Edwardvs Primus Scottorum Malleus" |
Here is Edward I, Hammer of the Scots
| Emily Dickinson | | "Called Back" |
West Cemetery; Amherst, Massachusetts
| Ernie Kovacs | | "Nothing in Moderation, We All Loved Him" |
Forest Lawn Cemetery; Hollywood Hills California
| Ethan Allan | | "Fighter, Writer, Statesman and Philosopher Lie in This Cemetery Beneath the Marble Statue. His Spirit is Vermont Now" |
Greenmount cemetery, Burlington, Vermont.
| Eve Arden | | "Wife, Mother, Actress, Author. The World Will Remember" |
Westwood Memorial Park, Westwood California
| Eva Gabor | | "Our Darling Eva We Love You" |
Westwood Memorial Park; Los Angeles California
| Freddie Prinze | | "We Love You Psalm:23" |
Forest Lawn; Hollywood Hills, California
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | | "So We Bear On, Boats Against the Current, Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past" |
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda Sayre. St. Mary’s Cemetery; Rockville Maryland In 1940, St. Mary's refused to allow Fitzgerald to be buried in the Catholic cemetery because, "He had not performed his Easter duty and his writings were undesirable." Fitzgerald was buried at Rockville Union Cemetery until 1975, when the authorities at St. Mary's had a change of heart
| Gene Autry | | "America's Favorite Cowboy . . . a Believer in Our Western Heritage." |
(1907-1998) Forest Lawn Cemetery - Hollywood Hills
| George Carlin | | "Jeez, He Was Just Here a Minute Ago" |
| Henry Ward Beecher | | "He Thinketh No Evil" |
Green-wood Cemetery, Brooklyn New York
| H. G. Wells | | "I Told You So, You Damned Fools" |
| H. P. Lovecraft | | "I Am Providence" |
Howard Phillips Love craft. Swan Point Cemetery; Providence, Rhode Island
| Jack Dempsey | | "A Gentle Man and a Gentleman" |
Southampton Cemetery, Southampton New York
| Jackie Gleason | | "And Away We Go" |
Catchphrase from his television shows.
| Jack London | | "The Stone Builders Rejected" |
Jack London State Historic Park; Glen Ellen California
| Jayne Mansfield | | "We Live to Love You More Each Day" |
Fairview Cemetery; Plainfield, Pennsylvania
| Jefferson Davis | | "At Rest. An American Soldier. And Defender of the Constitution" |
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond Virginia
| Jim Morrison | | "Kata Ton Daimona Eay Toy" |
"True to his own spirit". Pere Lachaise Cemetery; Paris, France.
| Joseph Conrad | | "Sleep After Toyle, Port After Stormy Seas, Ease After Warre, Death After Life, Does Greatly Please" |
St. Thomas Church, Canterbury England
| Karen Carpenter | | "A Star on Earth - A Star in Heaven" |
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Cypress California
| Mack Sennett | | "Beloved King of Comedy" |
Holy Cross Cemetery; Culver City, California
| Mahatma Gandhi | | "Hey Ram" |
Translated, "O Lord", supposed last words
| Marshall Field | | "Equity - Integrity" |
Graceland Cemetery; Chicago Illinois
| Martin Luther King | | "Free at Last. Free at Last. Thank God Almighty I'm Free At Last" |
| Marty Feldman | | "He Made Us Laugh, He Took My Pain Away. I Love You, Lauretta" |
Forest Lawn Cemetery; Hollywood Hills California
| Mel Blanc | | "That’s All Folks!" |
Hollywood Memorial Park, Hollywood California.
| Merv Griffin | | "I Will Not Be Right Back After This Message." |
| Minnie Riperton Rudolph | | "Loving You is Easy Cause You're Beautiful" |
Westwood Memorial Park; Los Angeles, California
| Oliver Hardy | | "A Genius of Comedy. His Talent Brought Joy and Laughter to All in the World" |
Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park; California
| Peter Finch | | "Distinguished Actor, Loving Husband, Always in Our Hearts" |
Hollywood Memorial Park; Hollywood California
| Primo Levi | | "174517" |
His number in Auschwitz
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | | "The Passive Master Lent His Hand, To the Vast Soul Which O’er Him Planned" |
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery; Concord Massachusetts
| R. Buckminster Fuller | | "Call Me Trimtab" |
A trimtab is the smallest part of a rudder for a ship or airplane and controls the direction of the craft.
| Rita Hayworth | | "To Yesterday’s Companion and Tomorrow’s Reunion" |
Holy Cross Cemetery; Culver City California
| Robert Lee Frost | | "I Had A Lover’s Quarrel With The World" |
Old Bennington Cemetery; Bennington Vermont
| Rodney Dangerfield | | "There Goes the Neighborhood." |
| Sammy Cahn | | "Sleep With a Smile" |
Westwood Memorial Park, Westwood California. Academy Award-winning American lyricist, songwriter and musician.
| Sammy Davis Jr. | | "The Entertainer. He Did It All" |
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale California
| Scott Joplin | | "American Composer" |
St. Michael’s Cemetery; East Elmhurst New York
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | | "Steel True, Blade Straight" |
Windlesham Estate; Crowborough Sussex England. In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire
| Sir Isaac Newton | | "Nature and Nature's Laws Lay Hid in Night: God Said, 'Let Newton Be!' and All Was Light." |
Westminster Abbey, London, England
| Sitting Bull | | "Chief of the Hunkpapa Sioux" |
Post Cemetery; Fort Yates, North Dakota
| Spike Milligan | | "I Told You I Was Ill." |
Written in Gaelic in order for it to be approved by the Chichester Diocese
| Stan Laurel | | "A Master of Comedy. His Genius in the Art of Humor Brought Gladness to the World He Loved" |
Forest Lawn Cemetery; Hollywood Hills California
| Studs Terkel | | "Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat" |
| Susan Brownell Anthony | | "Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality" |
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester New York
| Sylvia Plath Hughes | | "Even Amidst Fierce Flames the Golden Lotus Can Be Planted" |
Heptonstall Churchyard; Heponstall; Yorkshire United Kingdom
| Victor Fleming | | "He Leadeth Me" |
Hollywood Hills
| Virginia Woolf | | "Against You I Will Fling Myself Unvanquished and Unyielding, O Death" |
| William Butler Yeats | | "Cast a Cold Eye on Life, on Death Horseman, Pass By!" |
Drumcliffe Cemetery; County Sligo, Ireland
| William H. Bonney | | "Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King. He Died As He Lived" |
“Billy the Kid” - Fort Summer Cemetery, Fort Summer New Mexico
| Will Rogers | | "I Never Met a Man I Didn’t Like" |
Will Rogers Memorial; Claremore, Oklahoma
| Wyatt Earp | | "Nothing’s So Sacred As Honor and Nothing’s So Loyal As Love" |
Hills of Eternity; Colma California
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