I know I’m not supposed to pick my favorite. The carving on this stone is beautiful and strange and quirky and all the things I like. The clock is wonderful and a great gravestone symbol. The little details of the crossed bones and grave-diggers tools are just a little creepy in that Early New England sort of way. But really it’s the text of this stone that makes it my favorite. I think I can still almost quote it from memory.

I’ll transcribe the text because it’s not easy to make out unless the sunlight catches the lettering at exactly the correct angle.