Fort Parker Memorial Cemetery, Groesbeck, TX, Limestone County. (original) (raw)

Fort Parker Memorial Cemetery
TE Photo, 2007

Historical Marker:

Fort Parker Memorial Park

Site of the grave of victims of the massacre at Fort Parker by Comanche and Kiowa Indians on May 19, 1836, in which Cynthia Ann Parker and others were captured.

The trunk of the oak tree under which they were buried still stands, and the grave is marked by a granite slab.

Also site of state monument to the pioneers erected in 1922 and the graves of other old settlers and veterans of the Texas war for independence.

Limestone County Historical Society
1963

Fort Parker Memorial Park Historical Marker
TE Photo, 2007

Fort Parker Memorial Cemetery Statues
TE Photo, 2007

Fort Parker Memorial Cemetery Statues
TE Photo, 2007

Fort Parker Memorial Cemetery statue base
TE Photo, 2007

Unknown grave
TE Photo, 2007

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