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From: "Joel and Lynn GAzis-SAx" <>
Subject: Potters Fields
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 18:14:42 +0000

> From: Angus Robinson <>
> To: "''" <>
> Cc: "''" <>
> Subject: RE: Numbers only on cemetery markers
> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 19:27:25 -0500
> Reply-to:

> I suspect the people buried with only numbers for ID may be
> poor or unclaimed bodies. There is a cemetery behind the Oak Forest Hospital (Oak Forest, IL), to the south of Chicago, with similar burials - all numbers - no names. One of them contains
> the remains of a former Treasurer of the United States who died poor - which was quite a come down for her. What I remember
> at the time was she had no living relatives or friends to give her
> a decent burial.
> Angus Robinson
>

The practice in Colma, California is not even to lay out plot
markers! Olivet Cemetery's Cosmos Plot is nothing but a big grassy
field. I know for a fact that Arthur "Doc" Barker is buried out
there, but even though the cemetery has a plot number, no one can
point exactly and say "This is his grave."

(For more information on Doc and other folks buried in Colma, visit
my Tales from Colma at http://www.alsirat.com/silence/colma.html.)

Regards,

Joel GAzis-SAx
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