Weckeah "Hunting For Something" Parker

Weckeah Parker "Mrs. Parker leaves five daughters, twenty grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren: ... Children: Cynthia Ann Parker Cox (1873 - 1946), Weyodee Parker Tahmahkera 1880 - 1965), Wanada Parker Page (1887 - 1970), Mary Pache Parker Clark (1890 - 1952), Alice Parker Purdy (1894 - 1971)"

After a year of marriage and a visit of Mescalero Apache in the Quohada camps, Ta-ho-yea asked to return home citing as her reason her inability to learn the Comanche language. Quanah sent her back to her people.

Quanah's other wife in 1872 was Wec-Keah or Weakeah, daughter of Penateka Comanche subchief Yellow Bear (sometimes Old Bear). Although first espoused to another warrior, she and Quanah eloped, and took several other warriors with them. It was from this small group that the large Quahadi band would form.

Yellow Bear pursued the band and eventually Quanah made peace with him. The two bands united, forming the largest force of Comanche Indians.

Over the years, Quanah married six more wives: Chony, Mah-Chetta-Wookey, Ah-Uh-Wuth-Takum, Coby, Toe-Pay, and Tonarcy. A c. 1890 photograph by William B. Ellis of Quanah and two of his wives identified them as Topay and Chonie.[10] Quanah had twenty-five children with his wives. age 67 years

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The following obituary was sent by Lisa Stalnaker (#46893021):

Wellington Leader
Friday, June 8, 1923, Wellington, Texas
Page 12: Brief Texas News

Wife of Chief Quanah Parker Dies

Mrs. Weckeah Parker, wife of the former great chief of the Comanche Indians, Quanah Parker, for whom the town of Quanah, Texas, was named, died at Lawton, Okla., May 16, at the home of Mrs. E. H. Clark, one of her daughters. Mrs. Parker leaves five daughters, twenty grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren."

Source: newspaperarchives.com

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Wife of Chief Quanah Parker
The Comanche Nation