First Gravesite of Cynthia Ann Parker

The Texas State Library says Cynthia Ann Parker's name appears in the 1870 census and that she died shortly afterward, and it places her first burial at Fosterville Cemetery in Anderson County. Baylor's Texas Collection says she was buried beside her daughter, Prairie Flower. On July 22, 1909, her son Quanah wrote Governor Thomas M. Campbell from Cache, Oklahoma, that Congress had set money aside to move her body and build a monument. She was moved to Post Oak Cemetery in 1910 and later to Fort Sill, beside Quanah, in 1957, though a Baylor staff comment gives 1956.

What the plaque says

First Gravesite of Cynthia Ann Parker Captured from Ft. Parker by Indians, 1836. Recaptured by Texas Rangers in 1860. Mother of Quanah Parker, war chief of Comanches. First buried here. Reburied in Post Oak Cemetery, Okla., 1910. Reburied Ft. Sill Post Cemetery, Okla., 1957. Recorded --1969

Where it stands

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