What are some of the graveyard tombstone sayings? (Disney's Haunted Mansion)
Here is a complete list of WDW's Haunted Mansion tombstones, and in some
cases, which Imagineer they reference to.
RIP GOOD FRIEND GORDON now you've crossed the river jordan
RIP in memorium uncle myall HERE YOU'LL REST FOR QUITE A WHILE
(Chuck Myall - Art Director)
REST IN PEACE COUSIN HUET we all know you didn't do it
HERE RESTS WATHEL R. BENDER he rode to glory on a fender
(Wathel Rodgers - illusionist, mechanical genius)
HERE LIES GOOD OLD FRED a great big rock fell on his head
AT PEACEFUL REST LIES BROTHER CLAUDE planted here beneath this sod
(Claude Coates - Art Director, Master of Paint Effects and Lighting)
RIP MR. SEWELL the victim of a dirty duel
(Ted(?) Sewell - Engineer/Draughtsman(?))
IN MEMORY OF OUR PATRIARCH dear departed grandpa marc
(Marc Davis illustrator, idea man, funniest Imagineer)
REQUIESCAT FRANCIS XAVIER no time off for good behavior RIP
(Xavier Atencio - scriptwriter, and lyricist, Grim Grinning Ghosts
DEAR DEPARTED BROTHER DAVE he chased a bear into a cave
MASTER GRACEY LAID TO REST no mourning please at his request
(Yale Gracey - illusionist)
HERE LIES A MAN NAMED MARTIN the lights went out on this old spartan
(Bill Martin - Art Director)
One other stone has set in the area. After John Sullivan retired as
President of the Magic Kingdom, a tombstone was erected for approximately
two weeks.
Disneyland Haunted Mansion
Pet Cemetery
<bat>
FREDDIE
the Bat
1847
<upside down> We'll Miss You
<frog>
OLD
FLYBAIT
He Croaked
August 9
1869
<pig>
ROSIE
She was a poor little
Pig but she bought
the Farm
1849
<dog>
BUDDY
OUR
FRIEND
UNTIL
THE END
<skunk>
Beloved Lilac
Long on Curiosity...
Short on
Common Scents
1847
There is a cat surrounded by little mouse grave markers.
One that says "Fi Fi"
Those below are found on the red brick wall.
<rat>
In Memory My Rat
Whom I Loved
Now He Resides
in the Realms Up Above
<spider>
Here
lies
Long Legged
Jeb
Got tangled
up in his
very own web
<fish>
October 10
1867
<snake>(long snakey grave marker)
Here lies my snake who's fatal mistake was frightening the gardener who
carried a rake
<eagle?>
July 11
1864
Over on the wall near the railroad:
Theo Later
U.R. Gone
Ray N. Carnation
Dustin T. Dust
Lev Itation
G.I. Miss You
I Trudy Departed
Rust in Peece
I.L. Beback
M.T. Tomb