Cynthia Ann Parker Found!

[Craig Tx]

From the Texas State Historical Association

Texas Rangers "rescue" Cynthia Ann Parker

On this day in 1860, Texas Rangers under the command of Lawrence S. Ross attacked a Comanche hunting camp at Mule Creek. During this raid the rangers were surprised to find that one of their captives had blue eyes; it was a non-English-speaking white woman with her infant daughter. She was Cynthia Ann Parker, captured by Comanche warriors on May 19, 1836, at Fort Parker in Limestone County. She was with the Indians for almost twenty-five years and had become thoroughly assimilated to Comanche life. After her "rescue" she was never reconciled to living in white society and made several unsuccessful attempts to flee to her Comanche family. After three months at Birdville, her brother Silas took her to his Van Zandt County home. She afterward moved to her sister's place near the boundary of Anderson and Henderson counties. She died there, probably after 1870. Her son Quanah, a noted Comanche chief, later moved her body to Post Oak Cemetery, near Cache, Oklahoma. After his death her body was again reinterred near him at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.



Craig

[greyhunter]

Neat you should post this as I just did some research on Quanah Parker and read of his mothers story. He was quite an adaptable man succeeding in both worlds.

[Uncle Russ]

Right now I am reading / studying Empire of the Summer Moon .
"Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian Tribe in American history".
by; S.C.Gwynne
ISBN;978-1-4165-9105-4

Growing up in El Paso Texas I heard and read a lot of stories about the Comancheria, Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker, and many of the other Plains Indian Tribes and peoples, this book seems to bring a lot of that into a better and much deeper prospective.

Uncle Russ...

[Bison Horn]

Was at Ft Parker rondy and living history last week for Christmas at the Fort. BH

[Uncle Russ]

Was at Ft Parker rondy and living history last week for Christmas at the Fort. BH

Good on ya BH!
I often wish I was back there with you fellas and doing all these fun things again.
"You can take the boy out of Texas, but ya can't take Texas out of the boy".

 

Uncle Russ...

[gunmaker]

Grown woman should a been left alone---her choice....Some say she starved herself to death, missing her real family soooo much.  Tom