The remains of a teenager killed during the Tulsa Race Massacre 103 years ago have been identified by genealogists as those of a young World War I veteran from Georgia.
CL Daniels, a young man whose exact age is unclear, was one of hundreds of people who were murdered when the affluent Greenwood District in Tulsa, Okla., also known as Black Wall Street, was demolished in 1921. It was burned by a white mob intent on erasing decades of black history. And success.
Daniel, Joe Newman City, Ga. He was passing through Tulsa to get home to his mother when the riot broke out.
He served in the Army in World War I before being injured and honorably discharged.
In the decades since, identification initiatives have incidentally linked long-lost relatives at the state level.
“In August 2023, I got this email with the names of my grandparents, my parents. It was a letter saying we might be linked to the Tulsa race massacre,” said Angela Poythress, who was born and raised in Newnan. FOX5 Atlanta,
A forensic team was working tirelessly to locate relatives of the victims, including relatives related to Daniel.
Alex Whittler, an anchor for Fox 5 Atlanta, promoted their efforts by linking the team with any open calls for further DNA testing for confirmation. At the time, they were specifically looking for the surnames Daniel, Meriwether, Bohannon, and Vaughn.
Andrew Poythress’s DNA test had already been done before the forensic team arrived. She was found to be a “perfect match” with Daniel.
However, there were positive matches outside Georgia as well.
“They were trying to reach out to a lot of ‘Stacey Daniels.'” My grandfather is Stacey Daniels. “That’s what brought them to me,” Stacey “Daniels” Brown, a Florida woman, told the outlet.
The matches confirmed that Daniel Brown and Poythress were cousins, making Daniel their uncle.
They were all able to trace their lineage back to Amanda Meriwether, Daniel’s widowed mother of seven. She had tried to get confirmation of her son’s death and receive compensation for his leave, but never heard a word.
“He wrote a letter to the VA saying, ‘I want to go home. I need help getting home to my mom. She needs me.’ “He left a forwarding address in Wyoming — that’s where he was going before he was killed in the race massacre,” Angela told the outlet.
Daniel was officially laid to rest during the autumn in a ceremony hosted by former Tulsa Mayor GT Bynum. In order to properly slay the veteran after more than a century, he casts out all of Daniel’s remaining descendants.
They are hoping to eventually bring Daniel’s remains to the cemetery where his parents are buried – but the grounds have been mismanaged over the years, leaving the area unstable and filled with sunken headstones .
So, the descendants are coming together for another project and attempting to renovate the dilapidated cemetery in order to return Daniel to his family forever.
“Don’t worry, grandfather. We’re going to straighten it out,” Andrew told the outlet while looking at the overgrown grave.
Forensic teams are continuing to identify more massacre victims and search for families in Louisiana, Alabama, North Carolina and Texas. listed name,
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