SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE "POOR FARM" CEMETERY or POTTER'S FIELD Name- Potters  Field Also known as Silver Bow County Poor Farm Cemetery  or Poor Farm Cemetery. The term "County Cemetery" was also used. It is a half-acre patch ( NOTE : found book (The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State) by Ellen Baumler mentioning that the cemetery was 1 acre) of ground that lies uphill — and close to Interstate 15 — from the former Poor Farm building that is the National Center for Appropriate Technology. There is some confusion as to when the cemetery was no longer used for burials.  Reportage in newspapers at the time about burials there stop around 1905 but have found death certificates stating removal or burial at the poor farm after 1905 but the keyword being "or".   Bodies could have been removed from the poor farm and buried elsewhere after 1905.  Also found in an article by the Montana Standard dated May 29th, 2010( Buried a Pauper ) the year 1912 i