Crazy Gravestones from Concord, Mass

I was out in Boston a few weeks ago, and spent a couple hours in Concord, Mass, which is you know, where that whole "shot heard round the world" thing went down. Right in town there's an old cemetery with some Revolutionary era gravestones. We spotted a couple of odd ones, like this one where they misspelled the guy's name and had to fix their "typo":



And this one, which due to the old-timey script, I first read as "Having laid down the f-word with honor..." but it's sword. Not fword. Heh.




 

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