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The Department of Defense had undertaken the arduous task of disinterring and sorting through the commingled skeletons.

Cordingley found Lucy McCormick’s grave marker in Portland, informed the family — they were stunned — and later watched as she was disinterred.

The Army has disinterred 32 remains of Native American children and returned them to their families and tribes at the Army’s expense since 2017, the OAC spokesperson said.

Army Corps of Engineers, before dredging and straightening the river, disinterred this Potter’s Field.

On July 15, 2019, the agency disinterred the remains and sent them to its laboratory for analysis, where they were accounted for as Hill’s, it said.