Potter's Field/Section 13 -- Receiving Vault -- foresthillcemetery.net
Potter's Field
A potter's field is a place for the burial of unknown, unclaimed and indigent people. Forest Hill buried 346 in unmarked graves between 1914 and 1920, most of them during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.

At Forest Hill cemetery the Potter's Field is behind/part of section 22

  • Allen
  • Atwood
  • Berryman (unmarked)
  • Burns (unmarked)
  • Cook
  • Dougherty
  • Dresser
  • Espen
  • Featherly
  • Hansen
  • Hogan
  • Jaech
  • Keig (unmarked)
  • McKee
  • Nelson, Charles
  • Nelson, James
  • Nelson, Ole
  • Osborn
  • Rama
  • Reilly
  • Sommerow
  • Tillman
  • Toessul
  • Virgin
  • Williams
  • Williamson

  • Unknown 1
  • Unknown 2
  • Unknown 3 - Infant
  • Unknown 4 - Infant
  • Unknown 5
  • Unknown 6 - Infant

    • Receiving Vault
    A receiving vault is a structure designed to temporarily store dead bodies. Before modern powered digging equipment made it possible to dig graves in winter bodies were held until the spring though before burial.

    A list of those who were held at Forest Hill receiving vault without ever being interred here, they were moved to another location

    Moved somewhere, sometime

  • Buck
  • Carpenter
  • Converse
  • Flood
  • Johnson
  • McPeak
  • Raftree
  • Tichlofen