Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-02
CYNTHIA ANN rAnNE,t.
"Reminiscences If the Captive Woman
After Her Return Home,

A''pf tttf WnIWfW hume
Correspondence Ut the unseite.
AnStAuur, May ~ The runlnu
nicRtion Of your Wpcn correspondent
relating ITO Cynthia Ann Parker teyl Ses
Ia The mehiUfy Of your Montague cot
respondent the circumstances Of her
return 10 her family ana their ilrst
meeting after The pn0f aill had been
absent In captivity fot twenty four
years.
Cynthia Ann Parker was n grand.
daughter or ianao l'atkef, after whom
the county ~ Parker takes lie name.
AZ HE age OF nine years SHE wins alien
prisoner nj Parker lfutt on Tfinity
river, NJ y place called Trinity pt TIN
dad not fat from PALESTINE She wac
terapufed Oh ~ Indian raid into
Jack county, 40 well as eUw ren,ein-
be,ed, IN 1873. aud net ~ lRo., as
stated by sonr Waco correspondent,
At all events. the writer hereof was ni
Canton, Van H,hdt county, dur.
Ing the summer ~ iall ol
1868, when she was hro,lgh I
there. together VIII, her iniant gil
alipu, two years old, whose name was
i,puiiifana ut Prairie Flower. where
cynthia Ann mei her iwb brothers,
who then lived IN that county, aud "
memory Hetvts Alright one Of them WIS
there, the pnutty clerk NJ that county.
Your correspondent was present anu
Ia the hotel where The PARTIES met
aud well remenil ers the appearance "
the captive woman aud lief ehild "a
tbpy rode into canton the statue
Gn,,,aurlp pony Oh which abe wac
mounted AZ the time abe WAS recap
tnred, though che had changed bet
Indian paib nnh was dressed II, u coi
Ton ftorh. which allie lind made hnisplI
ia a iiisi experiment IN Ing,
Ier Infant nifI, aged about two years,
was sci down before tile door oi TIE
hotel, but sapn disappeared down the
sitaat aud lnhh Ia View az the town
bst,,re she WAS returned Her mother
had mi vet recovered tho ice ~ her
uolhe,.iennip, and II WINS there you,
correspondent iifsi heard what he tp,ls
% he n lrpilaf nc " sroIiiug 10 HE
,'np,spnla Dialect The w He'd Indian
slnD,ernl down with an ebeiletlas re-
markebln FOR Que NJ lie age. aud With
lie exception " pushing over q nento
child about tile place, aud about tie
aa,ite age. II WIS oiiiI,aiallvels Wtiif
lied tho resi- ~ the evening
When Cynthla's yoiineef brother,
wliu was n sisl war; man vf about tl,iis
~ ypAta tame In, he took a seal I, HE
,o6p, and looked long apd ansioilslf
al her M some minutes. aili not Tue
aliubtsat alp,l ~ recognition passed lee
tween them Until lie updettDok "
s,ieak 10 sonie ~ The company present
AZ lie suffered very much aud hal =
pep,lliaf hlAslng IN his wotla, lpbn a.
,,p,a recognised lin AMI smiled ,sl,nw /.
Ing viii, her hand ahuus how tall he
was when SHE last saw him.
lsbp was taken hume by Her btethefr,
and never saw her afterwards, tl,oueh
1 learned ahe ionged 10 return W we
Indians, aud both che aud her little
Gri died within n Few years One o.
Iwo ~ her children we're viii, Tue III
1iaus, also their father, nj Tie Time
she was captured, aud how y es,',e
she was away fron them ieyp,
heard, Hbp Hpnke 70 lief eaptbis ~
Epapisb aud claimed 10 he an Ai,,sfl.
ran, d, The time plie YVES TAKEN ana y
vac viii, nfeai difficulty ellie was idpi, :
| ,,fisa. bul when her tefeipud gfa,in
fati,s, Inquired ~ the INTERPRETER fhe
heaw t|yifsl,ia Ann Parker she n,
unna rpdppnlsed the iinii,e ahh con
tpssetl ief Identity