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  Handbook of Texas Online:
Cynthia Ann Parker, a captive of the Comanches, was born to Lucy (Duty) and Silas M. Parker
Later, federal officials P. Butler and M. Lewis encountered Cynthia Ann with the Yamparika Comanches on the Washita River; by then she was a full-fledged member of the tribe and married to a Comanche warrior.
Cynthia accompanied her uncle to Birdville on the condition that military interpreter Horace P. Jones would send along her sons if they were found.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/PP/fpa18.html   (737 words)

  
  Quanah Parker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quanah Parker's mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, was a member of the large Parker frontier family that settled in east Texas in the 1830s.
Cynthia Ann was eventually married to her warrior captor, Puhtocnocony (called Peta Nocona by the whites).
In 1860, Cynthia Ann Parker was recaptured in the battle of Pease River by Texas Rangers under Lawrence Sullivan Ross.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quanah_Parker   (398 words)

  
 Cynthia Ann Parker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cynthia Ann was a member of the large Parker frontier family that settled in east Texas in the 1830s.
Cynthia Ann married one of her captors, Puhtocnocony (called Peta Nocona by the whites), and they had two sons, Quanah (meaning "smell" or "fragrance") and Pecos (or Peanuts), and a daughter, Topsannah (or Prairie Flower).
Cynthia Ann and her daughter were sent to Camp Cooper, and there she was identified by her uncle, Colonel Isaac Parker.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cynthia_Ann_Parker   (940 words)

  
 Woman Spirit - Cynthia Ann Parker - Comanche (Adopted)
Even though she was not born of Native blood, the life of Cynthia Ann Parker certainly earned recognition and respect because of her devotion to Native life, her husband and her children.
Cynthia was born in Clark County, Illinois and moved with her family to the headwaters of the Navasota River in Texas as a young child.
Cynthia was "rescued" along with their daughter Topsannah and the two were taken to Camp Cooper.
www.powersource.com /gallery/womansp/cynthia.html   (602 words)

  
 Chronicles of Oklahoma
Cynthia Ann Parker and her baby were taken to the Texas settlements where she was identified by her uncle, Isaac Parker, and lived from the time of her capture, early in 1861 until her death with that of her child in 1864.
Cynthia Ann Parker was descended from a long line of adventurers and she soon adapted herself to her surroundings and became as good a Comanche, in spite of her golden hair and blue eyes, as any of her dark-skinned sisters.
Cynthia Ann Parker was buried in the Fosterville grave-
digital.library.okstate.edu /chronicles/v012/v012p163.html   (2911 words)

  
 The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker
Cynthia Ann was returned with her daughter to her uncle Isaac Parker (no relation to the judge) where she made several escapes attempts to return to her Comanche family.
Cynthia learned to speak English and the ways of the white woman learning to weave and cook all the while longing to be in her home teepee.
Cynthia was buried in Henderson County, Texas in the Fosterville cemetery.
www.rootsweb.com /~okmurray/stories/cynthia_ann_parker.htm   (1284 words)

  
 Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker | Carolyn Meyer | Where the...
At the age of nine, Cynthia Ann Parker was captured in an Indian raid and taken to live as a slave with the Comanche.
Cynthia Ann thought that that she was part of the Comanche tribe and they are not the ones that captured her.
Cynthia Ann thought she was a Comanche because she was captured by them when she was 9-years-old.
www.toavi.com /info/iktaethiah   (832 words)

  
 Local Interest   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cynthia Ann Parker was nine years old in 1836 when Commanches raided Fort Parker and stole her away.
Cynthia Ann was recaptured in the fall of 1860 by the Rangers.
Cynthia Ann was deeply unhappy living with her white relatives and in four short years the Prairie Flower died.
www.txfb.org /county/foard/flocal.htm   (399 words)

  
 Fort Tours | Battle of Pease River
And as the facts detailed corresponded with the massacre at Parker's Fort, I was impressed with the belief that she was Cynthia Ann Parker.
The state legislature granted Cynthia Ann Parker a league of land and an annual pension of $100 for life to ease her return to civilization.
Cynthia Ann was one of five white women and children abducted by the warriors.
www.forttours.com /pages/pease.asp   (3253 words)

  
 Fort Parker, Texas state historic site.
The murder, wounding and kidnapping of settlers by Indians at Fort Parker became the catalyst for the remarkable story of Cynthia Ann Parker, a child taken from the fort and raised as an Indian.
But Cynthia Ann Parker, 9, and her brother John 6, both children of Silas and Lucy Parker, were kept by the Comanches.
Cynthia Ann's son, Quanah died in Oklahoma in 1911.
www.texasescapes.com /AllThingsHistorical/FortParkerBB1202.htm   (671 words)

  
 Cynthia Ann
Cynthia Ann Parker was 9 or 10 when Comanches captured her and her brother John.
Her brother was eventually ransomed, but Cynthia Ann remained with the tribe, eventually marrying the warrior Peta Nocona.
Quanah Parker, the oldest son of Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker remained with the tribe after the raid that killed his father and returned his mother and sister to her American family.
www.oldfortparker.org /history/CynthiaAnn.htm   (1684 words)

  
 Quanah Parker
Cynthia Ann Parker was recaptured, along with her daughter, during an 1860 raid on the Pease River in northwest Texas.
Mackenzie appointed Quanah Parker as the chief of the Comanche shortly after his surrender, but the older chiefs resented Parker’s youth, and his white blood in particular." And in 1892, when Quanah Parker signed the Jerome Agreement that broke up the reservation, the Comanche were split into two factions: (1).
Quanah Parker died on February 23, 1911, and was buried next to his mother, whose body he had reinterred at Ft. Sill Military cemetery on Chiefs Knoll in Oklahoma only three months earlier.
www.snowwowl.com /nativeleaders/quanahparker.html   (724 words)

  
 Dallas Historical Society - Bound For Texas: People
Cynthia Ann Parker lived with her family in Fort Parker on the Navasota River until an Indian raiding party attacked the fort in 1836.
Over the years, several people had tried to rescue or ransom Cynthia Ann, but she always told them that she was happily married and did not want to leave her family.
In 1860, Cynthia Ann and Topsannah were captured by U.S. soldiers at the battle of Pease River.
www.dallashistory.org /history/texas/people.htm   (1419 words)

  
 Cynthia Ann Parker - A Texas Legend
It is said that in the mid-1840s her brother, John Parker, who had been captured with her, asked her to return to their white family, but she refused, explaining that she loved her husband and children too much to leave them.
Cynthia Ann's every attempt to return to her people failed, and she was repeatedly caught and returned.
In 1863, Cynthia received word that her son Pecos had died of smallpox, and only a few months later, the her daughter died of influenza.
www.lnstar.com /mall/texasinfo/CynthiaAnnParker.htm   (1088 words)

  
 TPWD: Copper Breaks State Park
Near the present park area, Cynthia Ann Parker was recaptured from a band of Comanche Indians and subsequently reunited with her relatives.
Cynthia Ann had been captured as a small child by a raiding party near Mexia and grew up among the Indians.
After being reunited with her relatives, Cynthia Ann Parker did not adjust well to the ways of the settlers and longed for the free life style of the Comanche.
www.tpwd.state.tx.us /spdest/findadest/parks/copper_breaks   (796 words)

  
 Who was cynthia ann parker?
Cynthia Ann Parker was born in 1825 to Lucy (Duty) and Silas M. Parker in Crawford County, Illinois.
Within six years after the attack on Fort Parker all those who had been kidnapped were returned to their families, except for Cynthia Ann Parker.
Cynthia Ann was given to a Tenowish Comanche couple that raised her as their own daughter.
ks.essortment.com /cynthiaannpark_rmfa.htm   (974 words)

  
 Cynthia Ann parker, Texas settler captured and raised by the Comanche Indians
Cynthia Ann Parker was born in 1825 to Silas M. and Lucy (Duty)Parker in Crawford County, Illinois.
Cynthia never quite adjusted to white life and was often locked in her room to keep her from running away.
Cynthia was buried in Fosterville Cemetery in Anderson County.
www.forttumbleweed.net /cynthiaparker.html   (1745 words)

  
 Texas Treasures - Quanah Parker to Governor Campbell - Texas State Library
Restoration of Fort Parker, near present-day Groesbeck, Texas, from which Cynthia Ann Parker was captured by Comanches on May 19, 1836.
Cynthia Ann Parker was 9 or 10 when she and her brother John were captured by Comanches.
She was restored to her family, under the guardianship of Isaac D. and Benjamin F. Parker, and the Texas Legislature voted her a pension and a league of land.
www.tsl.state.tx.us /treasures/indians/parker.html   (451 words)

  
 The Story of Cythia Ann Parker   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Among those taken into captivity were nine year old Cynthia Ann Parker and her six year old brother Johnnie, the niece and nephew of Isaac Parker.
I believe she is the long-lost Cynthia Ann." At this she quietly patted her chest and said "Me Cynthia Ann." Satisfied that she was his niece, Parker brought her and the little girl to his Birdville home (the Parker Cabin).
Topsanah died of pneumonia, and Cynthia Ann never got over her longing for Nacona, her sons, and her way of life.
www.logcabinvillage.org /annparker.htm   (482 words)

  
 Quanah Parker/Peyote
His mother Cynthia was a white woman who as a child had been captured by the Comanches on May 19, 1836, at Fort Parker, in Limestone County, Texas.
Parker was influential in the spread of Christian peyotism among the Plains Indians.
The town of Quanah, Texas -- settled in 1884 and named for Quanah Parker -- is the seat of Hardeman County, in North Texas.
www.stainblue.com /quanahparker.html   (465 words)

  
 Business News
Cynthia Ann Parker - as most school children know - was captured by Comanche Indians as a 9-year-old white girl at Fort Parker on May 19, 1836, in what is now Limestone County.
By then, Cynthia Ann was 33 years old and breast feeding her infant daughter, Prairie Flower.
Cynthia Ann was taken back to Limestone County to live with relatives.
www.texnews.com /biz97/smith042097.html   (626 words)

  
 Frontier Forts > The Die is Cast
Cynthia Ann Parker, who was abducted by Comanches in Ft. Parker, Texas, in 1836.
Cynthia Ann would be reburied next to Quanah, mother and son rejoined at last after more than 50 years.
Fort Parker, a Limestone County compound built by the Parker family for protection against the Indians, was attacked in May 1836 by more than 500 Caddo and Comanche Indians.
www.texasbeyondhistory.net /forts/dieiscast.html   (2063 words)

  
 History of Cynthia Ann parker, captured by the Comanche Indians   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cynthia Ann Parker (1825-1871) who became a legend in Republic of Texas history, was born in 1825 to Silas M. and Lucy (Duty)Parker in Crawford County, Illinois.
Cynthia never quite adjusted to white life and was often locked in her room to keep her from running away.
Cynthia was buried in Fosterville Cemetery in Anderson County.
www.forttumbleweed.com /cynthiaparker.html   (1068 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker (Great Episodes (Paperback)): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This book is the story of Cynthia Ann Parker, who at age nine, is kidnapped by Comanche Indians from her home in Texas.
As time goes on Lucy makes Cynthia Ann a promise that she is not sure she can keep in a time of hardships for everyone.
The Parker family finally obtains Cynthia and her Comanche daughter, but Cynthia is no longer the girl they knew.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0152956026   (666 words)

  
 Biography - Cynthia Ann Parker
Taken by the Indians were Cynthia Ann Parker, 9; her brother, John, 6; Elizabeth Kellogg, Rachel Plummer, with child, and her son, James.
Cynthia Ann was taken to East Texas, the pioneer women taking her Indian clothing and dressing her in pioneer style.
Cynthia Ann was reburied at Post Oak Mission Cemetery near Cache, Oklahoma, on December 3, 1910.
www.rootsweb.com /~txnavarr/biographies/p/parker_cynthia_ann.htm   (1569 words)

  
 Quanah Parker
Quanah, meaning "fragrant," was born about 1850, son of Comanche Chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, a white girl taken captive during the 1836 raid on Parker's Fort, Texas.
Cynthia Ann Parker was recaptured, along with her daughter, during an 1860 raid on the Pease River in northwest Texas.
Mackenzie appointed Quanah Parker as the chief of the Comanche shortly after his surrender, but the older chiefs resented Parker’s youth, and his white blood in particular." And in 1892, when Quanah Parker signed the Jerome Agreement that broke up the reservation, the Comanche were split into two factions: (1).
www.famoustexans.com /quanahparker.htm   (703 words)

  
 Nordamerikas indianer
Cynthia Ann och hennes dotter Topsanhah var försvunna.
Några rangers hade känt igen den lilla vita flickan i Cynthia Ann, som för många år sedan blev bortförd av indianerna.
Familjen Parker var överlyckliga och gjorde allt för att göra övergången till den vita civilisationen lättare för Cynthia Ann.
www.hypatia.se /indian/personer/parker.asp   (472 words)

  
 ~Quanah Parker ~
(1852 -1911) Quanah Parker was a Native American leader, the son of Comanche chief Peta Nocona and "Anglo-Texan" Cynthia Ann Parker, and the last chief of the Quahadi Comanche Indians.
Quanah Parker was born sometime between 1845 and 1849 in the Wichita mountain region of what is now Oklahoma, and died in 1911, as a result, there has been no recognized chief of the Comanches since Quanah.
This is the reason Quanah Parker is known as The Last Chief of the Comanche.
d21c.com /selkywolf/myths/qparker.html   (449 words)

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