Potter's Field: Guidance for Inventorying and Maintaining Historic Cemeteries

Upon researching the White Tanks Cemetery articles via Google, I found the following article regarding the maintenance for cemeteries, etc...  Guidance for Inventorying and Maintaining Historic Cemeteries

In the article it says the following, with a picture of White Tanks,
"Potter’s Fields
Burial grounds for strangers and
the poor were often unmarked
and usually placed in a less than
desirable location of a community.
Because most of the graves had
small or no markers, the location
of these cemeteries are often lost
as time passes and the cemetery is
no longer actively used for burials.
They are sometimes marked with a
central monument stating that it is
a potter’s field, or a cemetery that
served a hospital or victims of an
epidemic. The name “potter’s field”
comes from a Biblical reference,
Matthew 27:7 that says “And they
took counsel, and bought with
them the potter's field, to bury
strangers in” (King James Bible
[Cambridge Edition])


In Arizona, county cemeteries
such as those in Maricopa County
at Tempe and at White Tanks are
operated so those who die indigent, unknown, or without other
means for burial have a place to be
interred (Figure 10). Cemeteries
at the State Mental Hospital and
the State Prison also contain the
remains of those having no other
location to be buried (Figure 11).
These locations are usually devoid 
of all but the most rudimentary