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#1 2009-06-04 22:00:29

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 674

"pauper's field" for "potter's field"

The converse to Pat’s ‘potter’s grave’-

Apr 5, 2009 … At the very end of the episode, they showed a gravedigger placing the box of Derek’s ashes in an anonymous grave in a pauper’s field, ...
www.conversantlife.com/television/rip-derek-reese

When Napa stopped using the crematorium in 1964, people who were unclaimed and indigent are now sent to the pauper’s field here. ...
www.californiaclients.org/projects/facts040202.cfm

... attempts to track him down with the help of a guttersnipe named Jo, a friendless little boy who later dies, and finds him—buried in a pauper’s field. ...
video.barnesandnoble.com/DVD/Bleak-House/Ross-Devenish/e/794051233523

Oct 30, 2007 … The victim, known only as “Beth Doe,” was buried with her full-term fetus in a pauper’s field in rural Carbon County.
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,306440,00.html

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