potter's field
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“We played softball next to the potter’s field where he was buried and we would visit him on the holidays, with flowers and prayers,” she said.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2023
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
Instead of using the potter’s field, Dr. Sampson said her agency would soon start letting families freeze the bodies of their loved ones as a “long-term storage option” at the disaster morgues.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2020
Forget the potter’s field near the Bronx full of freshly dug graves.
From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2020
The bodies of the indigent dead were carted to the potter’s field and dumped, but no gravediggers were there to bury them.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
