Longitude: -96.547920000000
- Limestone
A force of several hundred Comanche and Caddo attack Fort Parker, five miles north of present-day Groesbeck. Five settlers killed; five captured, including Cynthia Ann Parker, Rachael Plummer.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837, vol. 1. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002).
Art Leatherwood, "Fort Parker," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/uef13), accessed October 28, 2015. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical
Association.
Rachael Plummer, Narrative of the captivity and extreme sufferings of Mrs. Clarissa Plummer: wife of the late Mr. James Plummer, of Franklin County (New York: Perry and Cooke, Publishers, 1838)
Cynthia Ann Parker Original Title: Cynthia Ann Parker
Image Type: Photograph, sixth plate tintype, hand-colored
Collection: Southern Methodist University, Degoyler Library, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
Image Viewed: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/jtx/id/358
Image Accessed: May 8, 2019
Longitude: -96.547920000000
- Limestone
A force of several hundred Comanche and Caddo attack Fort Parker, five miles north of present-day Groesbeck. Five settlers killed; five captured, including Cynthia Ann Parker, Rachael Plummer.
- Caddos
- Comanches
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837, vol. 1. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002).
Art Leatherwood, "Fort Parker," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/uef13), accessed October 28, 2015. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical
Association.
Rachael Plummer, Narrative of the captivity and extreme sufferings of Mrs. Clarissa Plummer: wife of the late Mr. James Plummer, of Franklin County (New York: Perry and Cooke, Publishers, 1838)
Cynthia Ann Parker Original Title: Cynthia Ann Parker
Image Type: Photograph, sixth plate tintype, hand-colored
Collection: Southern Methodist University, Degoyler Library, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
Image Viewed: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/jtx/id/358
Image Accessed: May 8, 2019