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
To stave off a secondary public health emergency, any bodies left unclaimed for 14 days were, for a time, being buried at a potter’s field on Hart Island in the Bronx.
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
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
