John T. Parker (1830â€"1915) was the brother of Cynthia Ann Parker and
the uncle of Comanche chief Quanah Parker. An Anglo-Texas man of
Scots-Irish descent who was kidnapped from his natural family at the
age of five by a Native American raiding party, he returned to the
Native American people of his own free will after being ransomed back
from the Comanche. He was a member of the large Parker frontier family
that settled in east Texas in the 1830s. He was captured in 1836 by
Comanches during the raid of Fort Parker near present-day Groesbeck,
Texas.John Parker was born in 1830 in Crawford County, Illinois, the
second oldest child of Silas Mercer Parker (1804â€"1836) and Lucinda
Duty. His younger siblings were Silas Mercer Jr., and Orlena. His
older sister was Cynthia Ann Parker. This family and allied families,
led by Silas' father John and brother Daniel, moved from Illinois to
Texas in 1833. A large group under the family patriarch, Elder John
Parker, settled near the headwaters of the Navasota River in
present-day Limestone County. In 1834 they completed Fort Parker for
their protection on the frontier.On May 19, 1836, a large force of
Comanche and allied warriors attacked the fort, and in what became
known as the Fort Parker Massacre killed five men and captured two
women and three children: Parker, his sister Cynthia Ann, Rachel
Plummer and her son James Pratt Plummer as well as Elizabeth Duty
Kellogg.The Comanche's population had increased in large part by
adopting captured women and children into the tribe, the former as
child-bearing slaves and the latter as tribal members. The Comanche
made little distinction from tribal members born into the tribe, and
those adopted in. Children under puberty were tested for intelligence,
strength and courage, and if they seemed acceptable in all, they were
adopted into the tribe and taught to be warriors. Grown men captured
alive were generally killed, while females over puberty could expect
gang rape and slavery. John Richard Parker Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter