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When Terri and Jerome visited, we took them to see the Black Angel. This angel rests at the Ruth Ann Dodge Memorial, in Fairview Cemetery. Around 1919, the angel was erected here to mark the grave of Ruth Ann Dodge, the wife of General Grenville M. Dodge, a Civil War veteran and the chief engineer of the Transcontinental Railroad. On her deathbed, Mrs. Dodge insisted she was visited by an angel offering her a drink from her vessel. On the third visit, she did drink and achieved immortality. Her daughters commissioned Daniel Chester French to sculpt the black angel. French is best known for the statue of Abraham Lincoln that he created for the Lincoln Monument in Washington. The water in the fountain was shut off in 1960 but restored to life again in 1985. It continues to draw visitors to Council Bluffs .


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