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Hallowed ground

Potter's fields are final homes for unclaimed, indigent deceased

By Brian Trompeter
Posted 10/17/25

Katherine Dettwyler of Wilmington has spent nearly a decade researching the lives of people whose remains ended up in Delaware’s potter’s fields, where unclaimed or indigent people are buried.

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