I was hoping someone on the list would come forward with a good answer for you about poor people's burial grounds. I know a little and that's probably what its worth. In the old Nashville City Cemetery, there was a section loosely designated something like "Potter's Section" or "Potter's Field" for poor folk. The old caretaker (who is no longer there and no one replaced him) called it that when my mother phoned and spoke with him a year or two ago. The index that I have seen on this cemetery does not list these individuals in a seperate section, you would have to know the surname you are searching and they would be listed in alphabetical order with all others. I feel there is a need to have the cemetery indexed by sections or grave owner plots, but as far as I know (and I have talked to Metro Archives), this has never been done. One more thing to keep in mind...potter's field would not have been near the center of the cemetery but probab. off to one side...and from what I believe I have been told, some of the interments in this cemetery were moved to Mt.Olivet cemetery when they put a railroad line alongside it in order to make room for the railroad tracks. Jeanne Johnson (researching BOSWORTH & RYMAN)