His grave has been vandalized in recent years, with many people mistaking his tombstone for Oscar Wilde's.

According to this story, Boone's tombstone in Missouri had been inadvertently placed over the wrong grave, but no one had ever corrected the error.

Later the Nazi regime organised a grandiose memorial ceremony over this grave, erecting a massive new tombstone with the single word: “ Richthofen ”.

A tombstone marks the grave of Father Marquette, next to the Museum of Ojibwayu Culture at the former site of St. Ignace Mission.

A tombstone is a headstone marking a grave.

Rabbi Loew is buried at the Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague in Josefov, where his grave and intact tombstone can still be visited.

In 1900, the church was demolished to make way for road improvements and as a consequence the grave and tombstone were forgotten.

His grave is marked by a simple tombstone engraved with his name, on the choir side of the main high altar ( between the altar and the apse of the Church ; behind the altar, from the perspective of a person standing at the main door ).

Diamond Bessie's grave in Jefferson's Oakwood Cemetery is a popular tourist attraction ; unmarked for years, it bears a tombstone reputedly installed in the night by an unknown admirer.

A modern tombstone marks the supposed location of his grave, which lies under an old yew tree.

His grave is marked with a veteran's tombstone listing his original regiment in 1862.

The gay community set a new tombstone on it, and since 2002 it has been a recurring event at Hungarian gay festivals to place a wreath at his grave.

There is a local folk tale that a tombstone in the churchyard marking the grave of Richard Smith, a young saddler murdered in the Market Place in 1727, " bleeds " every April.

In 2010 several Smith descendants commissioned a new tombstone for his grave in Brooklyn.

Her grave was unmarked until the relatives of Union Colonel Paul J. Revere, whom she had aided during the war donated a tombstone.

His tombstone reads: " A day of memory, Sad to recall, Without farewell, He left us all ", and his grave is regularly visited by fans.

None have read the tombstone marking his grave for none know where he lies.

The rituals are varied ; in legend trips to cemeteries, there is usually a specific grave that the legend attaches to, and sometimes a tombstone that must be climbed, stepped on, sat on, or moved.

Sometimes the grave is said to have the power to " heal " itself ; if a legend tripper returns to the site, and the tombstone has been restored to its original position, the legend has been confirmed.

The marble slab of the statue's pedestal was first used for a tombstone of a Major John Smith of the Black Watch who died in 1783 ; when Smith's grave site was leveled in 1804, the slab became a stone step at two successive mansions ; in 1880 the inscription was rediscovered and the slab was transferred to the New-York Historical Society.

Their grave is marked by a copy of an 18th century Sussex sandstone obelisk, which Alice had copied after Ernest's death to serve as their mutual tombstone.

The equation for S is engraved on Boltzmann's tombstone at the Vienna Zentralfriedhof — his second grave.

His grave is marked by a unique tombstone, in the form of a marble bench.

A headstone, tombstone, or gravestone is a marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave.

`` Amen '', said the Reverend Doran, grabbing his rifle propped up against a tombstone, `` and now my brethren, it would seem that our presence is required elsewhere ''.

A copper inscription recording his date of death was engraved on the tombstone, but is now missing.

There is now a campaign to protect the tombstone for future generations.

In an interview just prior to his death, Lee quoted a passage from Paul Bowles ' book The Sheltering Sky that he had chosen for his wedding invitations ; it is now inscribed on his tombstone:

And the identification is confirmed by the fact that in the now destroyed church of the Guillemins was a tombstone of Mandeville, with a Latin inscription stating that he was otherwise named " ad Barbam ", was a professor of medicine, and died at Liège on November 17, 1372: this inscription is quoted as far back as 1462.

John was presented with an ornate snuffbox by the authorities, it is now in Elgin Museum, he is also honoured with a large tombstone in the eastern Cathedral precints.

After the destruction of the cathedral the tombstone was lost, but it was found in 1859 ( it was being used to cover a well ), and is now in the Palais des Beaux Arts museum in Lille.

His tombstone, lost until the 19th century and now again displayed in the church, contains a depiction of him with a portative organ.

In 1997 his tombstone was moved from Berlin to Nanjing ( as it is now ) where it received a place of honor at the massacre memorial site.

Yersin's house in Nha Trang is now the Yersin Museum, and the epitaph on his tombstone describes him as a " Benefactor and humanist, venerated by the Vietnamese people ".

She buried him in London, and his reconstructed tombstone, which was re-used in the medieval wall of London, is now in the British Museum.

Jangsu had built a magnificent tomb for his father, and along with it an imposing 4 meter tall tombstone engraved with his father's accomplishments ( now known as the Gwanggaeto Stele ).

Floyd suffered a stroke and died on August 17, 1837, in Sweet Springs in Monroe County, Virginia ( now West Virginia ), and his tombstone can be found in the Lewis Family Cemetery, on the hill behind the remains of the historic Lynnside Manor.

And the identification is confirmed by the fact that in the now destroyed church of the Guillemins was a tombstone of Mandeville, with a Latin inscription stating that he was otherwise named " ad Barbam ", was a professor of medicine, and died at Liège on November 17, 1372: this inscription is quoted as far back as 1462.

The tombstone had an inscription with words from the fourth verse of McLean ’ s song:

His tombstone represents him in armor, holding a shield with three cooking pots, marmites, on it.

The Houston Chronicle newspaper had written them off with a tombstone emblazened with " RIP 2005 Astros ".

The Communist Party of Great Britain had the monumental tombstone built in 1954 with a portrait bust by Laurence Bradshaw ; Marx's original tomb had had only humble adornment.

He managed one final attack on Wilhelm by having his tombstone inscribed with the epitaph " Here lies a true servant of the Emperor Wilhelm I ".

" Lethem suggests that the point in 1973 when Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow was nominated for the Nebula Award, and was passed over in favor of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, stands as " a hidden tombstone marking the death of the hope that SF was about to merge with the mainstream.

The earliest written record of the town dates from the 2nd century, with a tombstone referring to it, discovered at the Lindenhof.

Christian tombstone from Quanzhou dated 1314, with inscription in the ' Phags-pa script

In Brittany, people flock to the cemeteries at nightfall to kneel, bareheaded, at the graves of their loved ones and to anoint the hollow of the tombstone with holy water or to pour libations of milk on it.

The inscription on his tombstone begins with the words, “ A great and dark horror befalls us from the hiding of the light of Rabbeinu ...”

The film ends with the title " The End " written on a tombstone with Keaton's pork pie hat propped on it.

The Hewitt family tombstone, with W. A.

It is a solid yellow marshmallow that resembles the shape of an arched door ( similar to the shape of a tombstone ; flat at the bottom, flat sides with a round top ).

During the Cold War the Invalidenfriedhof was on the boundary of the Soviet zone in Berlin, and the tombstone became pockmarked with bullets fired at attempted escapees to the west.

* ( with some exceptions ) a fairly narrow transom often referred to as the ' tombstone ' due to its unique shape.

Another account reported Schieffelin's friends told him, " Better take your coffin with you ; you will find your tombstone there, and nothing else.

In heraldic terminology: Tierced in pale: ( 1 ) Argent, a chevron sable between three roses gules seeded or, barbed vert ( for Smyth ); ( 2 ) or, an escutcheon of the arms of the See of Lincoln ( gules, two lions of England in pale or, on a chief azure Our Lady crowned seated on a tombstone issuant from the chief, in her dexter arm the Infant Jesus, in her sinister arm a sceptre, all or ) ensigned with a mitre proper ; ( 3 ) quarterly, first and fourth argent, a chevron between three bugle-horns stringed sable ; second and third argent, a chevron between three crosses crosslet sable ( for Sutton ).

* Farrah Fawcett ( 1947 – 2009 ), actress ; tombstone is engraved with her name only

( Frank Willard's tombstone at the Anna Cemetery in Anna, Illinois, is graced with an engraving of Moon Mullins.