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Fort Parker

Groesbeck, Limestone County

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.

Marker Details

Address Of FM 1245, in Fort Parker Historical Park
Location Description Fort Parker Historical Park, off SH 1245 on park rd. 35, N of Groesbeck
Marker # 2001
Dedicated 1965
Size, Type Civil War Memorials - (pink granite)
Code women, women's history topics; forts; Native Americans
Latitude, Longitude 31.547139, -96.549969

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