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Through her oldest son, Quanah Parker, Cynthia Ann Parker left hundreds of descendants. Her story is well known. Cynthia Ann was taken by and adopted into the Comanche tribe in 1836, when she was ...
Cynthia Ann Parker, Naduah, Narua, or Preloch [7] (Comanche: Na'ura, IPA:, lit. ' Was found '; [8] October 28, 1827 [nb 1] – March 1871), [1] was a woman who was captured, aged around nine, by a Comanche band during the Fort Parker massacre in 1836, where several of her relatives were killed.
Quanah (/ ˈ k w ɑː n ə /) is a city in and the county seat of Hardeman County, Texas, United States. [4] As of the 2020 census the population was 2,279, [5] down from 2,641 at the 2010 census. [6] Quanah is 192 miles (309 km) northwest of Fort Worth and 8 miles (13 km) south of the Red River, which forms the Oklahoma-Texas state line.
Quanah Parker (Comanche: Kwana, lit. ' smell, odor '; c. 1845 – February 23, 1911) was a war leader of the Kwahadi ("Antelope") band of the Comanche Nation.He was likely born into the Nokoni ("Wanderers") band of Tabby-nocca and grew up among the Kwahadis, the son of Kwahadi Comanche chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, an Anglo-American who had been abducted as an eight-year-old child ...
Biography of Cynthia Ann Parker - Roots.web *Cynthia Ann Parker - from Handbook of Texas online; Account of the 1836 attack Parker's Fort from Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas by John Henry Brown published 1880, hosted by The Portal to Texas History; Cynthia Ann Parker - Comanche (By Adoption) Archived December 8, 2012, at archive.today
The following is a list of people born in or otherwise closely associated with Quanah, Texas. Pages in category "People from Quanah, Texas" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
She was born Judias Welty in Quanah, Texas, on April 4, 1943. She was the third of four siblings. Her mother died when she was four, and she and her younger brother, Robert, were sent to live with her grandparents. Their father remarried, to a woman with two sons of her own.
Texas historical marker in Crowell, Texas Comanche chief (c. 1820–1864) Peta Nocona , also known as Puhtocnocony, or Tah-con-ne-ah-pe-ah ( c. 1820 – 1864), the son of Puhihwikwasu'u , or Iron Jacket, was a chief of the Comanche Quahadi (also known as Kwahado, Quahada) band.