Wichita ? For years, the workers at historic Maple Grove Cemetery were bothered that nothing marked the patch of ground where 120 of the city’s poorest residents were buried a century ago. So they set about to change that.

On Saturday — which was All Saints Day, when many remember the dead — a small group gathered in the cemetery to dedicate a memorial made from a leftover headstone and placed in the potter’s field.

Carved in the stone is a short description of the horse-drawn journey that brought the deceased, who were too poor to afford funerals, to the potter’s field between 1895 and 1903.

There is scant information about who they were. Cemetery records list one of the dead as Susie Clark, 22, whose only known address was the hospital where she died Nov. 24, 1898.

Another is recorded only as “the infant of J.E. Smith.” The baby was just 3 days old at the time of death — Nov. 29, 1896 — and had not been named.

Their burials were acts of charity; someone saw to it that they were laid to rest, albeit without headstones, in the potter’s field.

The term “potter’s field” is believed to have originated in the Bible. Matthew 27:3-8 refers to a field near Jerusalem where potters sought clay: “Then Judas, which had betrayed Him, saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests … and they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field to bury strangers in.”

The Maple Grove memorial, too, is an act of charity and remembrance. Around the base of the memorial, the cemetery’s workers had planted orange and yellow mums.

Saturday’s dedication was led by cemetery manager Eric Cale, and Liz Gomes, associate rector at St. James Episcopal Church.

“They are not forgotten, those who are not as fortunate as the rest of us,” Gomes said.