Potter's Field is the section of a cemetery where the unbefriended are buried, a name generally linked to the Gospel of Matthew, in which Judas Iscariot returned 30 pieces of silver and the priests used the money to buy a local potter's land for burying foreigners. In October 1886, Garfield commissioners purchased 72 lots in the eastern half of Linwood Cemetery for the burial of indigents who lacked nearby family, friends, or the means to pay for burial. This ground became the final resting place of many poorer residents and visitors, including unknown people who may have drowned in local rivers or been killed along railroad tracks, as well as suicides, ladies of the evening, others seen as undesirables, several of the city's Chinese, Hispanic, and African-American residents, and young children whose families could not afford burial. Most gravesites do not have markers. The cemetery's only known map, estimated to date from the early 1940s, shows 123 graves in Potter's Field, with 56 identified by last names and 67 listed only as occupied, and the total number of later burials is unknown. In October 1923, the Glenwood Springs Civic Improvement and Literary Club erected a monument reading "To the Memory of All Who Sleep Here in God's Acre" and also placed the white marble headstones scattered through the area. Some historical accounts have also raised the possibility that Doc Holiday, who was reportedly destitute after months bedridden before his death, may have been buried there at county expense beneath a wooden marker that later deteriorated.