By: Amanda Gilbert, FOX23 News
Crews in search for mass graves from the 1921 Race Massacre said Tuesday that they found human remains.
In a press conference, a spokesperson said they located remains but still have to do testing to see how old they are before they can be connected to the massacre.
Tulsa started another search in Oaklawn Cemetery for 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims on Oct. 19.
Back in July, we followed along an excavation where crews did not find human remains. Historian Scott Ellsworth says they know around 18 victims are buried in Oaklawn, they just don’t know exactly where those bodies are.
Starting Monday, October 19, at 7:30 a.m., for about a week, they’re going to do test excavations and core samplings of two main areas.
The cemetery will be closed to the public during this time.
One area they’re searching is known as the Original 18 Site, where two 1921 Race Massacre headstones are.
The second is the Clyde Eddy Site.
“Mr.Eddy was 10 years old at the time of the massacre. A couple days after the riot, he came upon some workmen who were burying bodies of massacre victims in a trench. He pointed out that trench to us,” said historian Scott Ellsworth.
