Tuesday, November 10, 2009

101 Ways, Part 109: Killed by Falling from Cliffs

For a brief intro to the "101 Ways to Say 'Died'" series, click here.

I lied a little bit when I said I didn't do any gravestoning in Bar Harbor. Just a little.

There are an awful lot of epitaphs that say "Killed by X." I didn't want to include them all in 101 Ways because the verb was always the same, but I might as well put them up now. This one from Bar Harbor, Maine is very sad:

Lucreatia K.
dau. of
Rev. Wm. S. & Priscilla
Douglass,
was killed by falling from
Cliffs on Newport, Mt. Eden, Me.
Aug. 3. 1853.
AE 12 yrs.
Dead, but not forgotten.
Erected by her Brother
J.H. Douglass, in 1880.

2 comments:

VJESCI said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuezNswtRfo

Caitlin GD Hopkins said...

Thanks for the link! I was a little afraid to click it, for fear it was going to be video of someone falling to her death.