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	Encyclopedia: Fort Parker Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Fort Parker Massacre was an event in 1836 in which members of the pioneer Parker family were killed in a raid by Native Americans
		One of the captives was a nine-year-old girl, Cynthia Ann Parker, daughter of Silas and Lucinda (Duty) Parker.
		Fort Parker State Park was created in 1935, and a replica of the fort was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fort-Parker-Massacre (704 words)

	Fort Parker Massacre -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Fort Parker Massacre was an event in 1836 in which members of the pioneer Parker family were killed in a raid by (Any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived) Native Americans
		Fort Parker was founded about two miles (3 km) west of (additional info and facts about Groesbeck) Groesbeck, (additional info and facts about Limestone County) Limestone County, (The second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico) Texas by Elder
		Fort Parker State Park was created in 1935, and a replica of the fort was built by the (additional info and facts about Civilian Conservation Corps) Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/fort_parker_massacre.htm (776 words)

	NM Baptist Monitor Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Elder Parker was a Charter member of Pilgrim Church on the 26th day of July, 1833 and was chosen its first Pastor on August the llth 1833, he served this Church until his death in 1844.
		Fort Parker was built by a colony of the Parker family and their relatives, the Parkers were remarkable for their honesty and courage and strong native talent.
		The Fort stood on a beautiful hill near a cool clear spring of water overlooking the fertile valley of the Navasota River.
	www.primitivebaptist.org /writers/parker_d/nmbm-articles.asp (1254 words)

	Kansas Forts\| Abridged: Old West Kansas (KS): Fort Leavenworth, Ft. Hays, Riley, Larned, Dodge, Scott: Western Frontier ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fort Belmont was built about 1860 in a wooded area on Sandy Creek nearby the town of Belmont, Kansas to protect the settlers from the Indians and the Missouri border ruffians.
		Fort Leavenworth had a vital role in the protection of Union interests in Kansas and western Missouri at the beginning of the Civil War, and was an attractive target throughout the war because of its arsenal.
		Fort Zarah was established September 6, 1864 on the banks of Walnut Creek near the crossroads of the Santa Fe Trail, the army supply route from Fort Riley, and the main Indian trail.
	www.ku.edu /heritage/owk/128/forts.html (4262 words)

	Tarrant County TXGenWeb - Hill Biographies
		Malinda's family, along with her parent's family, was living at Parker's Fort, which was located on the headwaters of the Navasota River, sixty miles from the nearest white settlement.
		Today called Fort Parker, it is located about two and one half miles northwest of the town of Grosebeck in Limestone County, about one mile from the river.
		Malinda moved her family to Limestone County, near the old Parker's Fort from whence George and she had been driven years before by the Indians in what is known as the Parker's Fort Massacre.
	www.rootsweb.com /~txtarran/citizens/c_hill.htm (1546 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.
		Fort Parker was founded by Elder John Parker and his three sons, Benjamin, Silas and James, and other families from the Predestinarian Baptist Church of Crawford County, Illinois.
		But Cynthia Ann Parker, 9, and her brother John 6, both children of Silas and Lucy Parker, were kept by the Comanches.
	www.texasescapes.com /AllThingsHistorical/FortParkerBB1202.htm (671 words)

	Indian Massacre Information - Articles Free (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the long history of the English colonization of North America, the term "Indian massacre" was often used to describe mass killings of European-Americans ("whites") by Native Americans ("Indians"), and, less frequently, mass killings of American Indians by whites.
		In theory, massacre applied to the killing of civilian noncombatants or to the summary execution of prisoners-of-war.
		Similarly, massacres were sometimes mislabeled "battles" in an attempt to give legitimacy to what would today be considered a war crime.
	www.articlesfree.com /index.php?title=Indian_massacre (969 words)

	History of Fort Sill
		Fort Sill soldiers were restricted from taking punitive action against the Indians who interpreted this as a sign of weakness.
		Quanah Parker and his Quohada Comanches were the last to abandon the struggle and their arrival at Fort Sill in June 1875 marked the end of Indian warfare on the south Plains.
		Until the territory opened for settlement, Fort Sill's mission was one of law enforcement and soldiers protected the Indians from outlaws, squatters and cattle rustlers.
	sill-www.army.mil /pao/pahist.htm (736 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		In its familiar version it runs as follows: Cynthia Ann Parker, nine-year-old daughter of Silas M. Parker, was captured with her little brother John, when the Comanche Indians sacked Parker's Fort, Texas, which was founded by her grandfather, Elder John Parker.
		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.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /chronicles/v012/v012p163.html (2911 words)

	New Page 65 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Parker and her two children, bade her to follow him with the infant in her arms and leading the other child.
		Parker's faithful dog seized his horse by the nose whereupon both horse and rider somersaulted, alighting on their backs in the ravine.
		I know they were alive at the time of the Fort Parker massacre in 1836 but did not appear on the 1850 census.
	www.50connect.co.uk /50c/fivesteps.asp (2037 words)

	Parker, Quanah on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Texas; son of a Comanche chief, Peta Nocone, and Cynthia Ann Parker, a survivor of a massacre.
		Fort Worth, Texas, approves natural-gas drilling under parks.
		The descendants of Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Comanches, meet for a reunion in Palo Duro Canyon, Texas.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/Parker-Q1.asp (366 words)

	The Whitman Mission
		Parker might have arrived in Oregon before Lee, except that he traveled only as far as St. Louis and waited there to catch the outbound fur caravans of 1835.
		The third mission scouted by Parker, at Tshimakain, was built in 1838 when the ABCFM reinforced the Presbyterian Whitman and Congregationalist Spalding with fellow Congregationalists Rev. Cushing Eells and Rev. Elkanah Walker.
		The Whitman Massacre, as it was quickly christened, was an isolated incident perpetrated by Indians who were later disavowed by their tribal hierarachs, but it struck fear into the emigrants in the Willamette Valley.
	www.endoftheoregontrail.org /road2oregon/sa07whitman.html (2258 words)

	Fort Tours \| Early Texas Settlements
		Soon the Northeast and Southeast Texas maps were produced with the help of Bill Groneman's Battlefields of Texas and Texas Forts by Wayne Lease although I haven't searched the counties' historical highway markers to complete the job.
		Nearly a dozen of the local residents were dismembered and scalped by Indians in a ferocious raid, echoing a previous 1829 raid on the Thompson farm which resulted in Stephen Austin ordering Ranger Captains Oliver Jones and Bartlett Sims as well as Harvey S. Brown, to lead companies in pursuit of the marauders.
		This would give you plenty of time to tour Parker's Fort and make the beautiful drive back to Centerville or visit the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A and M.
	www.forttours.com /pages/earlytexas.asp (950 words)

	Genealogy Images of History Fk - Fo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		FORT CLARK, TEXAS * - 1840 era - Texas area -Named in "Comanche Captive-Sarah Horn" by Louise Cheney, the story of an Apache Indian Kidnapping which resulted in the murder of her husband and the enslavement of her children.
		FORT ELLIOT - 1874 - as named in story entitled "LAST STAND ON A TEXAS PRAIRIE" by William P. Knox which chronicles history of the Battle of Lyman's Wagon Train and the Battle of Buffalo Wallow in 1874 which resulted in 19 Medal of Honor Awards being bestowed.
		FORT GRIFFIN "Nine Years Among the Indians - 1870-79" by Herman Lehmann, who was captured by the Indians and learned their ways and fought for them against the Americans, Mexicans and Texas Rangers.
	www.genealogyimagesofhistory.com /fk-fo.htm (9339 words)

	Fort Parker Massacre
		Fort Parker was founded about two miles west of Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas by Elder
		Fort Parker's 12-foot high log walls enclosed four acres.
		On May 19, 1836, a large party of Native Americans, including Comanches, Kiowas, Caddos, and Wichitass,
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/fort_parker_massacre (710 words)

	History of Cynthia Ann parker, captured by the Comanche Indians
		The Parker families built a fort around their community, calling it Fort Parker, and created a company of Texas Rangers for protection against the Indians.
		On May 19, 1836, Fort Parker was attacked by several hundred Caddo, Comanche and Kiowa Indians who killed several of the settlers and took five captives, including Cynthia Ann.
		The memories of life at Fort Parker faded, and she refused all attemps to reunite her with her white parents.
	www.forttumbleweed.com /cynthiaparker.html (1068 words)

	Ft. Parker
		Most of the 36 residents of the fort were members of the extended family of John and Sarah Parker.
		One of the Indians’ captives was a nine-year-old girl, Cynthia Ann Parker.
		John Parker had signed a treaty of friendship with Indians barely a year earlier.
	www.texancultures.utsa.edu /mystery/ft._parker.htm (149 words)

	Death in the Bronx
		The story of the contribution of the Stockbridges, their role in both military and diplomacy during the American Revolution, and the extreme bravery exhibited that fateful August day in 1778, are all worth remembering and commemorating.
		Brown, Parker B. "The Fate of Crawford Volunteers Captured by Indians Following the Battle of Sandusky in 1782." Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, 65 (October 1982), pp.
		Fraser, Kathryn M. "Fort Jefferson: George Rogers Clark's Fort at the Mouth of the Ohio River, 1780-1781." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 81 (Winter 1983), pp.
	www.americanrevolution.org /ind3.html (6911 words)

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		Collier died in Fort Worth on December 14, 1935, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Confederate Row.
		Flatt was remarried in Parker County, Texas on February 7, 1900 to Lilly Belle Tatum (born October 14, 1857), an accomplished pianist.
		Daniel’s paternal grandfather, Benjamin Parker, and both Benjamin’s parents were among the victims of the Parker’s Fort massacre on May 19, 1836the one in which famed Texas history character Cynthia Ann Parker was captured.
	home.flash.net /~coley/mike_biographies.html (23586 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: BELL COUNTY
		In their retreat from the fort several of the settlers were overtaken by Indians and killed.
		In the 1980s much of western Bell County lay within the boundaries of the military reservation, and the fort's estimated 160,000 military personnel, dependents, military retirees, and civilian employees exerted a tremendous economic and social influence on the civilian communities bordering the base.
		Neighboring Killeen was the largest city in the county, and the contiguous communities of Killeen, Harker Heights, and Nolanville, with an estimated combined population of 50,949 in 1980, were home to almost a third of the county's inhabitants.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/BB/hcb6.html (3679 words)

	HISTORY OF CADDO INDIANS
		One of their villages was on the road between the French fort at Natchitoches and the Spanish fort at San Antonio.
		Colonel Brooks in a communication to the Secretary of War stated that he was enclosing a paper which he had obtained from the Caddo chief, purporting to be a grant of land made +o the Caddo nation of Indians by a former governor at San Antonio.
		In September, the Grand Council convened at Bird's Fort on the Trinity River, where a treaty of far reaching importance was concluded between the Republic of Texas and the Caddoes and associated tribes.
	nac.tamu.edu /x075bb/caddo/Indians.html (19587 words)

	Lucia St. Clair Robson, historical novelist - The Texas Connection, the story of how Texas got into her blood.
		At the age of nine Cynthia Ann was taken by Comanches after an attack on her family’s fort in east Texas in 1836.
		I stood there in the same morning sun that had shined down on the Parkers and felt the waters of the past rising around me. I’d waded into history’s flow, and it was proving to be more mysterious and surprising than I’d expected.
		For the barbecue at Fort Parker’s Christmas celebration a few years ago, I helped sort and clean seventy pounds of dry beans, also at two in the morning.
	www.luciastclairrobson.com /Texas.htm (3719 words)

	Parker Heritage \| Parker Genealogy \| Parker Family History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ben, who may have been a junior, married Catherine Elizabeth Parker (supposedly no relation), and she received a pension for his service until her death in 1901.
		New subscriber Bobby Parker (parkerbp@webtv.net) has traced her Parker line back to Henry Parker, who appears in the 1850 and 1860 census of Milam County, Texas, but the two census reports disagree on his age and birthplace.
		One lead, he says, is that the father, John Parker, settled 1784 in Washington County, Georgia and that the grandfather was George Parker (1700-1770).
	www.parkerheritage.com /parkernewsletter/20.asp (1042 words)

	PARKERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		EDMUND PARKER, youngest son of PARKER of Horrackford, married JANET PARKER, daughter and heiress of ROBERT PARKER, of PARKER of BROWSHOLME, England in 1529.
		Many members of the Parker family were killed by the Comanche Indians and several were kidnapped by them, the most famous being CYNTHIA ANN, daughter of SILAS and Lucy DUTY PARKER.
		She was raised by them and after she was married and had a family, two boys and one girl, The Parkers kidnapped her back along with her little girl, but Cynthia had become to love the Indians and their way of life.
	hometown.aol.com /GMA529/Parker.htm (1423 words)

	Fort Tours \| Fort Milam Blood Trail
		Soon after its name was changed to Milam, December 27, 1835, a ranging company built the fort as a protection to the settlers against hostile Indians.
		His companions retreated to the fort as the Indians began scalping him.
		A regular army post near the site of present-day Marlin in Falls County, Fort Chambers was established in May or June of 1840 on the east bank of the Brazos River, two miles north of the present-day Highway 7 crossing.
	www.forttours.com /pages/fortmilam.asp (363 words)

	Fort Ticonderoga History: 1758 Campaign Bibliography
		These works in the Fort Ticonderoga research collections in the Thompson-Pell Research Center may be studied by appointment on weekdays.
		Most of the unique manuscripts in the Fort Ticonderoga collections have been reprinted in The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, published since 1927.
		John A. Schutz, "The Disaster of Fort Ticonderoga: The Shortage of Muskets During the Mobilization of 1758," Huntington Library Quarterly, vol.
	www.fort-ticonderoga.org /history/bibliographies/1758campaign.htm (12741 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Cynthia Ann Parker: The Life & Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is an excellent resource if you are wanting to know about Cynthia Ann Parker from the settler's perspective - the people she left behind, the family she had come from, and the search for her that continued throughout her 'captivity'.
		On May 19th, 1836 nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker, a member of a group of religious families occupying Fort Parker in Texas, witnessed the massacre of friends and relatives by combined bands of Caddos, Kiowas and Comanche warriors.
		Abducted by the Comanches, Cynthia was raised for the next 25 years as a tribal member and became "fully" Comanche, giving birth to Quanah Parker, the last Comanche Chief and one of the most influential intermediaries of his time, a representative of both the Native American and White cultures.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0874041872 (736 words)

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