Our friend Father Pitt, who has just released a lovely little picture-book of Pittsburgh cemeteries, shares this interesting epitaph adapted from Psalm 51:7 (because the monument stands in a Catholic cemetery, the quotation is adapted from the Douay version, where it is Psalm 50:9):

The epitaph would not be interesting in itself, but as applied to the deceased, it has a certain ringing appropriateness:

Here, by the way, is an excellent argument for the use of a professional proofreader even in very short texts, especially when there is a possibility that one’s mistake in the name of a certain gulch will be immortalized in stone for more than a century.