Tombstones: Edgar Allan Poe
His epitaph reads: Fly Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”
Tombstones: Unknown U.S. Soldier
The epitaph reads: Here Rests in Honored Glory An American Soldier Known But to God
CODA: Anne Boleyn, (1507?-1536)
“Oh God, have pity on my soul. Oh God, have pity on my soul.”
Anne Boleyn was Henry VIII’s second queen and the mother of Elizabeth I. She was executed after she fell into Henry’s disfavor. From the scaffold, she addressed the spectators who came to see her beheaded,
Tombstones: Benjamin Franklin
His epitaph reads: The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author
CODA: Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
His last words were: “I am not the least afraid to die.”