John Jones—he came from Boston

From A treasury of American anecdotes; sly, salty, shaggy stories of heroes and hellions, beguilers and buffoons, spellbinders and scapegoats, gagsters and gossips, from the grassroots and sidewalks of America by Benjamin Albert Botkin. 

Two women from Boston . . . were riding across the prairie and came upon a lone tombstone with the simple inscription: “John Jones—he came from Boston.” They looked at it reverently, and finally one said, “How brief, but how sufficient.”