potter's field
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The local council of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal group of which both are members, helped raise money for the interment and donated a marker for the potter’s field.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
Calvary Catholic Cemetery — made a plan: Establish a potter’s field, gather the unclaimed dead and give them a proper burial.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
The videos emerged as the coronavirus outbreak ravaged New York, and after they circulated, officials confirmed what viewers suspected: The city had begun interring unclaimed bodies of Covid-19 victims in the potter’s field.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2020
Forget the potter’s field near the Bronx full of freshly dug graves.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2020
One of the worst things that could be said about someone from Harlem was that he was buried in potter’s field.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
