Poynor, Texas: First Grave of Cynthia Ann Parker
Cynthia Ann Parker was captured by Comanches, gave birth to Chief Quanah Parker, was recaptured by whites, and died unhappy. She was later dug up and moved to Oklahoma, but Texas still vernerates her original tombstone.
Foster Cemetery
- Address:
- CR-478, Poynor, TX
- Directions:
- Foster Cemetery. US-175 to Poynor, then take the exit for TX-315. Drive south on 315 for four miles. Turn left onto unmarked CR-478 (it looks like a dirt driveway). Drive one mile to the Cemetery, on the left. You'll have to walk a distance from the road to the Cemetery gate. The grave is a couple hundred feet straight in from the gate. It has its own historical marker.
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The grave is more than 100 feet from the entrance, but close enough. There isn't a driveway from the road to the cemetery entrance, so we drove through some high grass. Close to the entrance there are a couple very large rocks. Be careful not to run into them.
[Traveling Daisy, 06/21/2025]
Cynthia Ann Parker, later known as Naduah (a Comanche name meaning "someone found") was an Anglo-American who was kidnapped in 1836, around age 10, by a Comanche war band which had attacked her family's Texas settlement. This is her original burial site before she was moved to Oklahoma to be buried with her son, Comanche Chief Quanah Parker.
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Cynthia was recaptured by the whites after 24 years. She was not happy about it, and eventually starved herself to death. Cynthia Ann Parker is such a folklore figure in Texas that her gravestone has its own state historical marker, even though she's now buried in Oklahoma. Texas could never keep her, even after she was dead.