Seventy-eight new graves have now been discovered at Oaklawn Cemetery during the City's fifth excavation at the site as part of the search for victims and descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Thirty-six of those 78 new burials were discovered this week, with three additional sets of remains escorted to the on-site osteology lab today for further analysis. The remains today were observed to be adults buried in plain wooden caskets.
Since the excavation began on Oct. 14, experts have exhumed six burials, one of whom is confirmed to have a gunshot wound. And since the City began excavations at Oaklawn Cemetery in 2021, seven burials are confirmed to have trauma associated with gunshot wounds.
Field work will continue for at least the next week.
For the latest information on the 1921 Graves Investigation, visit: www.cityotulsa.org/1921Graves
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