REUBEN FLAGG
DIED NOV. 9, 1869
IN THE 71ST YEAR OF HIS AGE
WAS ONE OF THE FOUR FIRST FAMILIES
THAT SETTLED IN WILL CO.
A PIONEER IN THE ADVANCE GUARD OF THE
WESTERN EMIGRATION 1830
HAULED THE LUMBER TO BUILD THE FIRST
FRAME HOUSE ERECTED IN CHICAGO.
OUR MOTHER BETSEY K.
WIFE OF REUBEN FLAGG
DIED FEB. 20, 1876
IN THE 71ST YEAR OF HER AGE
MOTHER OF THE FIRST WHITE CHILD BORN IN WILL CO.
MARY JANE
DIED JULY 11, 1853 AGED 9. YRS. 10. MS 26. DS.
HENRY C.
DIED DEC. 17, 1854 AGED 15. YRS. 3. MS. 10. DS.
SAMATHA E.
DIED FEB. 25. 1872 AGED 41. YRS. 5. MS.
CHILDREN OF R. & B. FLAGG

According to the trade magazine publication, Monument Reporter, December, 1909, Volume 42, Issue No. 12, published by Nichols and Co., Chicago, Illinois, page 13, the Flagg monument was a “unique monument erected at the Plainfield, Cemetery, Plainfield, Ill. For George Flagg, in memory of his father and mother, Reuben A. Flagg and his wife. This job was cut out of one solid piece of Indiana buff Bedford stone. It is 5-0 x 4-0 x 7-2 to the top of the chimney and weighs 15,000 pounds. It required six horses to haul it from the depot to the cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Flagg were one of the first four families in Will County and always lived in a log cabin of this style; and that is why this monument was especially designed for them by Arthur Wunderlich of the E. Wunderlich Granite Co., Joliet.”