Cynthia Ann Parker Daughter
She was adopted by the comanche and lived with them for 24 years completely forgetting her european ways.
Cynthia ann parker daughter. Narua was an american who was kidnapped in 1836 around age 10 by a comanche war band which had attacked her family s settlement. Cynthia ann parker october 28 1827 march 1871 also known as naduah comanche. There are no descendants of cynthia ann parker except through quannah s line.
Topsana or prairie flower died a year later probably of influenza. Parker was adopted by the comanche and lived with them for 24 years completely forgetting her white ways. Cynthia ann parker or naduah also sometimes spelled nadua and nauta meaning someone found or keeps warm with us circa 1825 1827 march 1871 was an american who was captured and kidnapped at the age of nine by a comanche war band who massacred her family s settlement.
Narua was an anglo american who was kidnapped in 1836 around age 10 by a comanche war band which had massacred her family s settlement. Cynthia ann parker was born to silas m. Adopted into the comanche tribe she lived a.
Cynthia ann parker and her daughter topsannah prairie flower in 1861 pictured after she was rescued by government troops cynthia ann parker aged just nine was abducted as her. Her comanche name means someone found parker was adopted by the comanche and lived with them for 24 years completely forgetting her white ways. There is considerable dispute about her age as according to the 1870 census of anderson county texas she would have been born between june 2 1824 and may 31 1825.
Parker and lucy parker in crawford county illinois. On april 8 1861 a sympathetic texas legislature voted her a grant of 100 annually for five years and a league of land and appointed isaac d. Her comanche name means someone found.
Find a grave memorial ironically i ve encountered a. Cynthia ann parker and her daughter topsannah. Pecos died of smallpox as a boy in 1862.
Cynthia ann parker c. But she was never reconciled to living in white society and made several unsuccessful attempts to flee to her.