This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.parker/14189.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: two corrections to the above. Cynthia Ann Parker was taken as a wife of Peta Nocona and was the mother of Comanche Chief Quanah who took the name Parker after his arrival at fort Sill in 1875. He intellengently realized it gave him leverage with the whites being called Quanah Parker. The website with fairly accurate linage is at: http://groups.msn.com/QuanahParkerFamilyHistory/