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_Samuel BOONE ____________
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_Squire William BOONE _|
| (1760 - 1807) m 1784 |
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|--Infant BOONE
| (1816 - 1816)
| _William "Thomas" GRUBBS _
| | (1719 - 1775) m 1738
|_Anna GRUBBS __________|
(1766 - 1843) m 1784 |
|_Susanna HEARNE __________+
(1714 - 1817) m 1738
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_Thomas FORCE _______+
| (1670 - 1722) m 1690
_Obadiah FORCE ______|
| (1691 - 1789) m 1728|
| |_Hannah SMITH _______
| (1669 - ....) m 1690
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|--Manning FORCE
| (1730 - 1789)
| _Joseph MANNING _____+
| | (1672 - 1728)
|_Johanna MANNING ____|
(1705 - ....) m 1728|
|_Temperance HULL ____+
(1683 - ....)
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_George David GODFRY _+
| (1640 - 1688) m 1666
_Moses GODFREY ______|
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| |_Hannah ______________
| (1646 - ....) m 1666
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|--Benjamin GODFREY
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| _Josiah II COOKE _____+
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|_Deborah COOK _______|
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|_Deborah HOPKINS _____+
_Matthew PARKER _______
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_Washington Lafayette PARKER _|
| (1832 - 1917) m 1853 |
| |_Mary Isabella ISACKS _
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|--Ella PARKER
| (1864 - 1901)
| _John TUBB ____________
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|_Martha Ann TUBB _____________|
(1835 - 1909) m 1853 |
|_Salla MALONE _________
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[Genealogy.com, LLC WFT Vol. 66, Ed. 1, Tree #0612, Date ofImport: Apr 28, 2001]
An interesting event in history happened to my relatives, the Parker's. The story from The Dallas Morning Sun April 5, 1953 is as follows:
Fort Parker Looms as Courage Shrine
On a slant of hill in Limestone County one morning last week a man was plowing with a mule and a bull tongue plow.At the end of his furrow rose up the ten ft. high
walls and the twenty ft. high blockhouses of Fort Parker.
Only thing you could see on the landscape was the man with the bull tongue plow and the mule and the great stockade, rising uplike something in a too realistic dream. So you didn't even have to imagine how things looked on the same spot on May 19, 1836.
On that morning 127 years ago most of the men of Fort Parker were plowing the fields around the stockade. Most of them were out of sight of the walls.
About two hours after sunrise several hundred members of the Wasp band of the middle Comanche plus a number of their Kiowa allies, appeared on a rise about 300 yards from the fort. They were on their war horses and the sky was studded with lances, yet they displayed a white flag and a young Comanche rode up to the walls making the pantomimic peacesign, though his pony's tail was tied up in a bun the way the Indians fix theirmounts before battle.
Foolishly, the folks in the fort opened the huge doublegates, and a man named Benjamin F. Parker went out to talk. He was killed. While this was going on the patriarch of the fort, Elder John Parker, a veteran ofthe American Revolution led a party of women and children out of the back of the fort and told them to race for the woods.
Ben Parker's brother, a husky fellow named Silas Parker, stood at the open gate of the fort, and fought off Indians with a hoe. Finally he was overpowered and killed and scalped. A massacre followed, although an astonishing number of the able bodied settlers got away and hid. Elder Parker and his wife Granny Parker were caught. The old Revolutionary soldier was killed and Granny was speared and outraged and left for dead.
The war party must have been in a hurry. They didn't even burn and loot the fort. They rode to the northwest, taking several woman and children captives.
Twoof the captives were a 9 year old girl, Cynthia Ann Parker, and a 6 year old boy, John Parker, children of the brave men who had fought the Indians at the gate of the fort.
The night after the fight the Indians camped and had a war dance and almost stomped and beat their captives to death.
The survivors of Fort Parker eventually returned to their bulletproof stockade. With determined men behind the walls the fort could turn back any number of the crudely armed prairieIndians.
There was word of the lost Parker children. One of the captured women, Mrs. Rachel Plummer, was freed after Gen. Sam Houston paid her ransom. Mrs.Plummer got back to Fort Parker and died a few days after getting home. She said the Parker children had become adopted members of the Comanche band.
This seemed true. For in 1840 a Comanchero (or trader to the Comanches) reported seeing a little white girl. He tried to ransom her, but the Indians told him that all the goods the Comanchero had wouldn't be enough to buy the white child. JohnParker became a Comanche warrior and rode on raids from central Mexico to Kansas. Cynthia Ann became the wife of the noted chief, Peta Nocona, and bore him several children. One of these children was Quanah Parker, last war chief of theComanches, and later a judge and friend of Theodore Roosevelt.
For about 24 years Cynthia Ann Parker rode and lived with the wild Comanches. They were almost constantly at war with other Indians, with the Texas Rangers, and with the U.S. Army.
On December 18, 1860 a mixed force of Texas Rangers, U.S. Dragoons, and armed settlers around Mineral Wells were on a revenge raid against the Comanches. They surprised a band on the headwaters of
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_John Y. PHILLIPS ______
| (1797 - 1847) m 1823
_Austin PHILLIPS ___________|
| (1825 - 1884) m 1856 |
| |_Polly (Mary) SULLENS __
| m 1823
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|--Mary PHILLIPS
| (1868 - ....)
| _Andrew Jackson BARTON _+
| | (1815 - 1870) m 1839
|_Margaret Elizabeth BARTON _|
(1842 - 1913) m 1856 |
|_Elizabeth WIGHAM ______+
(1823 - 1880) m 1839
[69732] !Not listed on the 1880 Census nor IGI
_Resolved WHITE _____+
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_Samuel WHITE _______|
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| |_Judith VASSALL _____
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|--Susanna WHITE
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| _____________________
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|_Rebecca ____________|
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|_____________________
_Alvah YOUNG ________+
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_Horace YOUNG _______|
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| |_Lucretia THOMPSON __
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|--George Alvah YOUNG
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| _____________________
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|_Electa C. BARNARD __|
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