Cynthia Ann Parker (October 28, 1827 â€" March 1871), also known as
Naduah (Comanche: Narua), was an American who was kidnapped in 1836,
around age 10, by a Comanche war band which had attacked her family's
settlement. Her Comanche name means "someone found".Parker was adopted
by the Comanche and lived with them for 24 years, completely
forgetting her white ways. She married a Comanche chieftain, Peta
Nocona, and had three children with him, including the last free
Comanche chief, Quanah Parker.At approximately age 34, Parker was
discovered and relocated by the Texas Rangers, but spent the remaining
10 years of her life refusing to adjust to life in white society. At
least once, she escaped and tried to return to her Comanche family and
children, but was again brought back to Texas. She found it difficult
to understand her iconic status to the nation, which saw her as having
been redeemed from the Comanches. Heartbroken over the loss of her
daughter to pneumonia, she stopped eating and died in 1871.Cynthia Ann
Parker was born to Silas Mercer Parker and Lucinda Parker (née Duty)
in Crawford County, Illinois. Her birth date is uncertain; according
to the 1870 census of Anderson County, Texas, she was born in 1824 or
1825. Originally, her middle name was Ana, but over the years, it was
changed to Ann. When she was nine or 10 years old, her grandfather,
John Parker, was recruited to settle his family in north-central
Texas; he was to establish a settlement fortified against Comanche
raids, which had been devastating to the Euro-American colonization of
Texas and northern Mexico. The Parker family, its extended kin, and
surrounding families established fortified blockhouses and a central
citadelâ€"later named Fort Parkerâ€"on the headwaters of the Navasota
River in what is now Limestone County. Cynthia Ann Parker Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter