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Cynthia Ann Parker, the Story of Her Capture tells the story of the famous settler who was capture by a Comanche war band as a young child.
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Cynthia Ann Parker, the Story of Her Capture - James DeShields
CYNTHIA ANN PARKER, THE STORY OF HER CAPTURE
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James DeShields
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATED
Cynthia Ann Parker, the Story of Her Capture
By James DeShields
THE STORY OF HER CAPTURE
At the Massacre of the Inmates of Parker’s Fort; of her Quarter of a Century Spent Among the Comanches, as the Wife of the War Chief, Peta Nocona; and of her Recapture at the Battle of Pease River, by Captain L. S. Ross, of the Texian Rangers.
by
JAMES T. DeSHIELDS,
Author of Frontier Sketches,
Etc.
Truth is Stranger than Fiction.
DEDICATED
………………
(By Permission)
—TO —
GENL. L. S. ROSS,
—OF —
WACO, TEXAS.
PREFACE
In the month of June, 1884, there appeared in the columns of the Forth Worth Gazette an advertisement signed by the Comanche chief, Quanah Parker, and dated from the reservation near Fort Sill, in the Indian Territory, enquiring for a photograph of his late mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, which served to revive interest in a tragedy which has always been enveloped in a greater degree of mournful romance and pathos than any of the soul-stirring episodes of our pioneer life, so fruitful of incidents of an adventurous nature.
From the valued narratives kindly furnished us by Victor M. Ross, Major John Henry Brown and Gen. L. S. Ross, supplemented by the Jas. W. Parker book and copious notes from Hon. Ben. F. Parker, together with most of the numerous partial accounts of the fall of Parker’s Fort and subsequent relative events, published during the past fifty years; and after a careful investigation and study of the whole, we have laboriously and with much pains-taking, sifted out and evolved the foregoing narrative of plain, unvarnished facts, which form a part of the romantic history of Texas.
In the preparation of our little volume the thanks of the youthful author are due to Gen. L. S. Ross, of Waco; Major John Henry Brown of Dallas; Gen. Walter P. Lane of Marshall; Col. John S. Ford of San Antonio; Rev. Homer S. Thrall—the eminent historian of Texas; Mr. A. F. Corning of Waco; Capt. Lee Hall, Indian Agent, I. T., and Mrs. C. A. West-brook of Lorena, for valuable assistance rendered.
To Victor M. Ross of Laredo, Texas, the author has been placed under many and lasting obligations for valuable data so generously placed at his disposal, and that too at considerable sacrifice to the donor.
From this source we have obtained much of the matter for our narrative.
In submitting our little work—the first efforts of the youthful author—we assure the reader that while there are, doubtless, many defects and imperfections, he is not reading fiction, but facts which form only a part of the tragic and romantic history of the Lone Star State.
JAMES T. DeSHIELDS,
Belton, Texas, May 19, 1886.
CYNTHIA ANN PARKER.
CHAPTER I.The Parker Fort Massacre, Etc.
Contemporary with, and among the earliest of the daring and hardy pioneers that penetrated the eastern portion of the Mexican province of Texas, were the Parker family,
who immigrated from Cole county, Illinois, in the fall of the year 1833, settling on the west side of the Navasota creek, near the site of the present town of Groesbeck, in Limestone county, one or two of the family coming a little earlier and some a little later.
The elder John Parker was a native of Virginia, resided for a time in Elbert county, Georgia, but chiefly reared his family in Bedford county, Tennessee, whence in 1818 he removed to Illinois.
The family, with perhaps one or two exceptions, belonged to one branch of the primitive Baptist church, commonly designated as two seed,
or hard shell
Baptists.
In the spring of 1834 the colonist erected Parker’s Fort, a kind of wooden barricade, or wall around their cabins, which served as a means of better protecting themselves against the numerous predatory bands of Indians into that, then, sparsely settled section.
As early as 1829 the Prairie Indians
had declared war against the settlers, and were now actively hostile, constantly committing depredations" in different localities.
Parker’s colony at this time consisted of only some eight or nine families, viz : Elder John Parker, patriarch of the family, and his wife; his son James W. Parker, wife, four single children and his daughter, Mrs. Rachel Plummer, her husband, L.