C. L. Daniel

C. L. Daniel was an American World War I veteran known for being the first victim of the Tulsa Race Massacre identified from remains exhumed from mass graves in Tulsa.

Biography
C. L. Daniel was born and raised in Newnan, Georgia to Thomas Daniel and Amanda Merriweather. His father died before 1910. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1918 during World War I and served until 1919. He was stationed at Camp Gordon in Chamblee, Georgia, during his military tenure. According to an anthropologist at the University of Florida, he spent 19 days in a base hospital for a possible leg injury.

Death and identification
After the war, Daniel traveled across the United States. He was on his way home to Georgia from Utah when he was killed in the Tulsa Race Massacre. In 2020, the city of Tulsa began exhuming suspected mass graves related to the massacre. In July 2024, Daniel was the first victim of the massacre exhumed from the graves positively identified. The city offered to help rebury Daniel according to his family's wishes.