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Battle Of Peace River By Cynthia Ann Parker

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Cynthia Ann Parker was born in Illinois between June 2, 1824 and May 31, 1825 and moved to central Texas by the age of nine with her family. Cynthia Ann Parker makes her mark on history on May 19, 1936; this would be the day she and four others including her brother would be kidnapped by Caddo, Comanche, and Kiowa. Parker was approximately ten years old when she was snatched from the only home she knew “Fort Parker” with her parents and siblings and force into Comanche life (Lone Star). “Fort Parker was built for protection against an attack, built walls around the settlement and established a base for Texas Rangers” (Cynthia). Fort Parker was meant as a safe haven for the whole family, but little did it protect against what it was built for. …show more content…

“It would also be during this raid that her husband Peta would be injured and flee the settlement with their two sons Quanah and Pecos” (Cynthia). Parker herself with her daughter was almost a tragedy of this attack until a Ranger notices her blue eyes “The Ranger was surprised to find that one of the Comanche had blue eyes; it was a non-English speaking white women with her infant daughter” (Cynthia). Parker would be force from her home back into the white world. Here she found her uncle Col. Isaac Parker who recognized her when she got back to the settlement and had her move in with him. Keeping Parker housed became more of a problem due to her consistently trying to runaway back to her Comanche family, for this reason Parker was moved several times to many different family members including her brother and sister. Parker was torn with sadness of not knowing if her husband Peta had made it through his injuries and what had become of her two sons. Parker was led to believe by an interpreter that her husband died during the raid which just escalated her spiral of depression “oblivious to everything by which she was surrounded, ever and anon convulsed as it were by some powerful emotion which she struggled to suppress” (Parker). She was morning her family “Cynthia Ann cut her hair, a sign of morning among the Comanche, as she came to believe that her husband and sons were dead”

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