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Jun 4, 2021 · Starting tomorrow, experts intend to work at Oaklawn Cemetery through Friday from 7 a.m. – 4 p.m. For the latest news and information on the 1921 Graves Investigation, including photographs from inside Oaklawn Cemetery, visit www.cityoftulsa.org/1921Graves and follow 1921 Graves on Facebook, @1921Graves. --###--.
May 23, 2021 · On Tuesday June 1, the City of Tulsa will begin a full excavation and analysis of the Original 18 site at Oaklawn Cemetery, 1133 E. 11th St. led by the University of Oklahoma - Oklahoma Archaeological Survey (OAS) and the 1921 Graves Physical Investigation Committee.
The Perryman Cemetery, located at 32nd and Utica, is Tulsa’s oldest private cemetery. The cemetery has approximately fifty people buried and has a small number of unmarked graves. The Perryman’s were instrumental in the foundation of Tulsa during the 19th century.
Mar 2, 2022 · Background: In the summer of 2021, archaeologists exhumed multiple burials in this area, 19 of which were transferred to the on-site osteology lab for initial analysis. Fourteen of those remains are being used in the DNA Analysis work scheduled to begin this month (see “DNA RFP” paragraph below).
Jun 1, 2021 · A crew at Oaklawn Cemetery, Tulsa's oldest existing cemetery, prepared one far corner for excavation work that's set to begin on Tuesday. The city hopes to exhume remains of Black residents who may have been buried there.
Jun 2, 2021 · The full excavation and analysis of a site at Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa, led by the University of Oklahoma – Oklahoma Archeological Survey and the 1921 Graves Physical Investigation Committee, began June 1.
Jun 8, 2021 · Researchers said Tuesday that they have now uncovered 15 more burials in an Oaklawn Cemetery mass grave since an October test excavation revealed 12 in their search for 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims, bringing the total to 27 presumed sets of remains with still more "very likely" to be discovered.
