potter's field
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After an autopsy, Joseph was buried for the first time at a potter’s field in the city.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
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 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
In another, a body was sent to Hart Island — New York’s potter's field — to be buried without the family’s knowledge or approval.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2020
After the potter’s field and Bush Hill cemeteries were full, they took over the public square nearest Bush Hill and began burying paupers there.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
