This slate headstone marks the grave of Henry Baldwin, Esq., who died on December 20, 1755, at age 61. Carved with a winged death's-head — a common New England funerary motif symbolizing mortality and the soul's flight to the afterlife — the stone reflects burial customs and folk-art traditions of colonial America. Note: this photograph was found filed among an unrelated World War II negatives collection and documents a mid-18th-century cemetery rather than a wartime subject. Project: 218317