Fairview Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Iowa
ANNA A.
WIFE OF
J. S. FLAGEOLLE
DIED JUNE 8, 1887
AGED 24 YRS 2 MOS. 9 DYS.
TAKE THEM O FATHER IN
THINE ARMS
AND MAY THEY HENCEFORTH
BE,
A MESSENGER OF PEACE
BETWEEN
OUR HUMAN HEARTS AND THEE.
LEULLA
DAU. OF
ANNA A. & J. S. FLAGEOLLE
DIED AUG. 8, 1883
AGED 8 MOS. 28 DYS.
WE MISS THE BRIGHT EYES
OF OUR DARLING CHILD;
AND THE SWEET ROSY LIPS
THAT SO OFT ON US SMILED.
SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN.
The Western White Bronze Company of Des Moines, Iowa, produced this draped and decorated column marker out of zinc. The marker was created for a mother and daughter. Several different symbols adorn the marker, including a boat and a winged cherub.
The winged cherub was a symbol that became popular in the 18th Century. Winged cherubs replaced the stark and morbid flying death’s heads from our Puritan forefathers. The cherubs have a childlike countenance of innocence. The iconography represents the flight of the soul from the body upward to Heaven and the hope of the resurrection.
Gravely Speaking 
Oh, that cherub is lovely. I’ve seen zinc monuments, but never such a delicate angel.