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potter's field







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The family lived down the street from the potter’s field where the boy was first buried, and placed flowers there on holidays.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2023

After an autopsy, Joseph was buried for the first time at a potter’s field in the city.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022

Since the 1800s, this potter’s field in Long Island Sound has been the final resting place for the marginalized, the unidentified and the sick.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2022

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

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