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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.
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.
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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 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 ...
Hotze "Harry" Koch (/ k ɒ x / KOKH; 22 October 1867 – 21 June 1942) was a Dutch-born American businessman who founded the Quanah Tribune-Chief newspaper. He was the father of Fred C. Koch (1900–1967), founder of Koch Industries .
Givens was born on January 5, 1930, in Quanah, Texas, to Edward Galen Givens Sr. (1904–1990) and Mary Helen Givens (née Jarrell; 1909–2002). He had one younger brother, Donald Jarrell Givens (1932–1952), who died in a Consolidated P4Y-2 Privateer crash in Corpus Christi, Texas. As a child, his family called him Young Galen Givens.
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.