Quanah Parker's mother, Cynthia Ann Parker (born c. 1827), was a member of the large Parker frontier family that settled in east Texas in the 1830s. She was captured in 1836 (c. age nine) by Comanches during the raid of Fort Parker near presentday Groesbeck, the Comanche name Nadua (Foundling), she was adopted into the Nokoni band of Comanches, .