What This Key West Resident Has Written On Their Gravestone Tells It Like It Is

Inscribed quite plainly on B.P. Roberts' stone are the words: "I told you I was sick." NPR's popular "Here and Now" program highlighted Key West Cemetery in an episode from January 2017 (per WLRN). They spoke with tour guide Patty Tiffany about Roberts' epitaph, who had some pretty insightful things to say about it. She noted that it's one of the favorite stones in the cemetery for tourists. Though Roberts died more than 40 years ago, her final words are still making people laugh every day. 

The Marker tells us a little bit of background on Roberts. She feared that she was always ill, perhaps giving her final words a funny reminder of her character. With those words, it would seem like Roberts was the one who will always have the last laugh. A look upward from Roberts' marker is one belonging to Gloria Russell, whose remains were interred in 2000. Her epitaph has a different, but equally humorous, phrase. Below her date of death are the words, "I'm just resting my eyes"(per Roadside America).

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