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Middlefield, Connecticut, USA. The Ward family burial plot at the Old North Burying Grounds represents multiple generations of the family. Tombstone carving became a form of folk art in the eighteenth century. A well-known stone carver, David Miller, created gravestones seen in this cemetery. Skulls were used to symbolize death, incorporated into a representation of an angel, Miller's having distorted faces. In the 1800s, granite was used in place of brownstone in the creation of gravestones.