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==Biography==
C. L. Daniel was born and raised in [[Newnan, Georgia]] to Thomas Daniel and Amanda Merriweather. His father died before 1910.<ref name="NBC1">{{cite news |last1=Sutter |first1=Sofia |title=First person identified in Tulsa massacre mass grave |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/tulsa-massacre-oklahoma-mass-grave-cl-daniel-rcna161599 |access-date=13 July 2024 |work=[[NBC News]] |date=12 July 2024 |language=en}}</ref> He was drafted into the [[United States Army]] in 1918 during [[World War I]] and served until 1919.<ref name="NYTimes1">{{cite news |last1=Burch |first1=Audra D. S. |title=The Search for Tulsa Massacre Victims Finally Reveals a Name |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/us/tulsa-massacre-victim-identified.html |access-date=July 13, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 12, 2024}}</ref> 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 [[military hospital|base hospital]] for a possible leg injury.<ref name="NBC1" />
===Death and identification ===
After the war, Daniel traveled the United States.<ref name="NBC1" /> 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.<ref name="NYTimes1" /> The city offered to help rebury Daniel according to his family's wishes.<ref name="PBS">{{cite news |last1=Kemp |first1=Adam |title=A World War I veteran is the 1st Tulsa Race Massacre victim to be identified in city’s yearslong investigation |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-world-war-i-veteran-is-the-1st-tulsa-race-massacre-victim-to-be-identified-in-citys-yearslong-investigation |access-date=13 July 2024 |work=[[PBS News]] |date=12 July 2024 |language=en-us}}</ref>
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