Details for Fort Parker

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5293002001

Data

Marker Number 2001
Atlas Number 5293002001
Marker Title Fort Parker
Index Entry Fort Parker
Address Of FM 1245, in Fort Parker Historical Park
City Groesbeck
County Limestone
UTM Zone 14
UTM Easting 732581
UTM Northing 3492844
Subject Codes women, women's history topics; forts; Native Americans
Marker Year 1965
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Marker Location Fort Parker Historical Park, off SH 1245 on park rd. 35, N of Groesbeck
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size Civil War Memorials - (pink granite)
Marker Text Built 1834 for protection from Indians. Named for leaders who bought first Predestinarian Baptist church body to Texas: Elder Daniel Parker; his father, Elder John; brothers Jas. W., Benjamin, Silas, John. Also here were Kellogg, Frost, Nixon, Duty and Plummer families on May 18, 1836, raiding Comanches killed Benjamin, John and Silas Parker, Samuel and Robert Frost and others; captured Elizabeth Kellogg, Rachel Plummer and son James, and Sila's children, John and Cynthia Ann in captivity, Cynthia Ann married Chief Peta Nacona; her son, Quanah, was last Comanche Chief. With her baby, Prairie Flower, in 1860 she was captured by Texas Rangers. She, the baby and Quanah are buried at Fort Sill.

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