Child's Grave, Church Street Graveyard

Iconography of innocence and sorrow on a child's tombstone in Mobile's Church Street Graveyard. Lambs and weeping willows were popular symbols of grief in the nineteenth century.

Decorative stone grave marker carved with a cross, lamb, and angel’s face, with larger monuments visible in the cemetery background.
Photograph courtesy of the Alabama State Council on the Arts
Decorative stone grave marker carved with a cross, lamb, and angel’s face, with larger monuments visible in the cemetery background.