returned, at the behest of his grieving mother, tried to
bring her home. Cynthia Ann declined, saying she loved
her family too much. She spoke not of the Parker family,
but her Comanche family. She’d married a young chief,
Peta Nocona, who would latter gain fame/notoriety for his
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Gun hole in wall of Fort Parker
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fierce forays into the white settlements west of Fort Worth.
Together they had three children, two sons and a daughter: Quanah Parker, Pecos and Topsannah. (* Historians
disagree on whether the Parker family recovered John
Richard Parker or whether it was he who tried to broker