Anderson County

Foster Cemetery

Historical Marker Text

First Gravesite of Cynthia Ann Parker

Captured from Ft. Parker by Indians, 1836. Recaptured by Texas Rangers in 1860. Mother of Quanah Parker, war chief of Comanches. First buried here. Reburied in Post Oak Cemetery, Okla., 1910. Reburied Ft. Sill Post Cemetery, Okla., 1957. 

1969 

location: about 6 mi. north of Brushy Creek off FM 315 on Millnar Rd. in Foster Cemetery