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Updated: May 29, 2025

Special families in New England seem to have appropriated special verses as epitaphs, evidently because of the rhyme with the surname. Thus the Jones family were properly proud of this family rhyme: "Beneath this Ston's Int'r'd the Bon's Ah Frail Remains Of Lieut Noah Jones" or Mary Jones or William Jones, as the case might be.

Alice Morse Earle - Customs and Fashions in Old New England