Potters' field

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US-GCS DCL Coll-284 Row A CITY Grinnell Stories-2017-09-24

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Grinnell Stories blog by Dan Kaiser
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Hazelwood Cemetery Potter’s Field
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Death

Post title: Grinnell’s Potters’ Field: Who’s Buried There?

Date published: September 24, 2017

Link to blog post: https://grinnellstories.blogspot.com/2017/09/grinnells-potters-field-whos-buried.html

Drake Library Archive Digital File Name: Grinnell Stories/2017-09-24 Potter’s Field

Summary: Kaiser outlines the lives of some of those buried in the potter’s field at Hazelwood cemetery, a plot which provided burials for transients, the poor, and others for whom no one spoke upon their death, including many infants and young children.

1217 First Avenue, Grinnell, IA, USA
1527 Davis Avenue, Grinnell, IA, USA
Borowski, Arthur
Coply, Anna
Davis, Velma Marie
Ewig, Guy
Fulton, Everett
Haines, Andrew Jackson
Haines, Hazel Mary
Haines, Pearl Otto
Hart, William
Hazelwood Cemetery
Hernandez, Melchior
LaGrange, Floyd
Martin, Colleen
Martin, Judd
Martin, Lorita
Martin, Vera
O’Malley, James
Parse, Martin
Ramos, Manuel R.
Robinson, Billy
Snyder, James
Stanley, Richard Leroy
Taylor, Luke (Rusty)
Tompkins, Arthur
Tompkins, Helen

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See also 3.2 - Grinnell - History - Hazelwood Cemetery

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