A history of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Randy Krehbiel Tulsa World A partially disabled World War I veteran trying to get home to his mother has been identified as a 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victim buried anonymously in the city’s Oaklawn Cemetery, researchers and Mayor G.T. Bynum said Friday.
People are also reading… The letter, from Stanford Arnold of Newnan, Georgia, on behalf of Amanda Daniel, seeks “any benefits that be due her” because of her son’s service and honorable discharge because of injury. “or some time I have traveled this country over and now sufriend with complance that was in the base hospitle with,” Daniel wrote, his spelling and grammar a testament to the sort of education many Americans and especially Black Americans received in the early 20th century. “ear sir, please send me a nof money to git me a job and to eat with till I Get better.”
Bynum indicated that Daniel’s family, whose members were not identified, have not decided how they want to proceed with final burial. “We now feel doubly confident of the criteria we’ve been using to know which ones are good candidates for exhumation,” she said. In Daniel’s case, researchers said, extended family members were mostly unaware of the circumstances of his death, if they knew of him at all. Intermountain’s Alison Wilde, who handles the genealogical side, said many living family members did not know each other, much less the story of a great uncle who died without direct descendants more than a century ago.
Officials said the small craft, generally thought to be two-seat, single-engine Curtis “Jenny” biplanes, were merely keeping track of activities on the ground and relaying the information through written messages dropped in weighted metal cylinders attached to streamers.
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