Chelt'nam is a city in England. A woman and three daughters died after drinking the Chelt'nam waters. They should have stuck to Epsom Salt.
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The epitaph is based on this one:
- Here lies I and my three daughters,
- Kill’d by drinking Cheltenham waters;
- If we had stuck to Epsom salts,
- We’d not been a lying in these here vaults.
Published in Funny Epitaphs, Boston: The Mutual Book Company, 1900.