Life History

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Notes

• Quanah died in 1911.  In the census that year, several of his wives and children show up in their own households.  We see here the mixed usage of English and Comanche names with individual family members.
  
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  1911 Indian Census Rolls, Kiowa Comanche and Apache Tribes, Oklahoma, 30 June, Kiowa Agency, Comanche Tribe, Page 20
  
  1 To narcy 46 [b abt 1864] F Roll #1
  
  2 Laura Parker Birdsong (Nedah) Head 28 [b abt 1862] F Roll #1 1/2
  3 Anona A Birdsong Dau 6 [b abt 1905] F
  
  4 Weck e ah 51 [b abt 1860] F
  
  5 Ta too ah rup (Baldwin Parker)  Head 23 M [b abt 1888] Roll #3 1/2
  6 Tab bo noid (Nora Goot se que tah) Wife 25 [b abt 1886] F
  7 Ollie Parker Dau 5 [b abt 1906] F
  8 Elmer Parker Son 3 [b abt 1908] M
  
  9 Mah cheet to wook ky Head 49 [b abt 1862] F Roll #4
  
  10 Mah cheet to wook ky Bessie (Parker) Head 23 [b abt 1888] M Roll #4 1/2
  11 Theadore Ase nap Son [no age rptd] M
  
  12 Mah cheet to wook ky (White Parker) Head 33 [b abt 1878] M Roll #4 1/2
  13 Bertha Parker Dau 12 [b abt 1898] M
  
  14 To pay Head 32 [b abt 1879] F Roll #5
  15 Kelsey To pay (Parker) Son 12 [b abt 1898] M
  16 Chee Parker Son 4 [b abt 1907] M
  
  17 Taum-mer-ra-da (Sidney Mah seet)  Head 45 M [b abt 1866] Roll #6
  18 A-er-wuth-take-um   45 [b abt 1866, grave is 1853] F
  19 Mary Taum-mer-ra-da  Female Dau 15 [b abt 1896]
  
  20 Tit tah (Thomas Parker)  19 M Roll #6 1/2
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  Baldwin Parker, Sr
  Birth Dec 1887 Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  Death Oct 6, 1963 Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  
  The Lawton Constitution
  Monday, October 7, 1963
  Page 2
  
  Baldwin Parker, Son of Famed Chief, Dies
  
  Baldwin Parker, 75, son of Comanche Indian Chief Quanah Parker, died about 3:35 p.m. Sunday in a local hospital following a week's illness.
  
  He was one of the last of the elder tribesmen who still wore his hair in long braids. Braided hair was a tradition with older Indians.  Mr. Parker was born in December, 1887, at Fort Sill, while his family was encamped there.
  
  As a child, he lived in his father's two-story "Star House," in the shadow of the Wichita Mountains north of Cache. He lived on his land north of Cache until it was taken in the Fort Sill expansion.  He then moved to an area west of Cache.
  
  He attended a school established by his father on the Parker Ranch. The school was attended by both Indian and white children. He also attended Chilocco Indian school.
  
  Mr. Parker worked in the post engineering department at Fort Sill during World War I, and in service at Ahas Air Force Base and Liberal, Kansas, during World War II.
  
  His father is said to have introduced the peyote religion to the Comanches, and Baldwin Parker was also active in the Native American Indian church.  He was converted to the Cache Indian Nazarene church almost two years ago.  Services are pending at Becker Funeral home and burial will be at the Nazarene cemetery west of Cache.  [but note that burial actually was in the Intertribal Cemetery.  See end of the record below.]
  
  He was married to Nora Tabbanoid in Lawton ca 1901.
  
  He is survived by his wife, of Rt. 1, Cache; two daughters, Mrs. Ollie Wahkinney, 2620 G. and Mrs. Jo Ann Sands, Oakland, Calif.; six sons, Elmer, of 1715 Floyd; Roy, of 2709½ C.; Simmons, of Los Angeles, Calif.; Wilbur, of Mescalera, N.M.; Whit Choney, 1814 Dearberg(?), and Baldwin, Jr., of Indiahoma.
  
  He is also survived by a brother, Tom, of Apache, and four sisters, Mrs. Alice Purdy, Germany; Mrs. Neda Birdsong, Cache; Mrs. Wanda Page, 2713 __?; and Mrs. Emma Tahmakhera, Cache.
  
  Mr. Parker and his wife attended the recent Chief Satana historical celebration held only two weeks ago at Fort Sill.
  
  Follow-up Note: Baldwin and Nora were married on Sep. 5, 1905 at Lawton (per Oklahoma Marriages, familysearch.org).
  Obit provided by Lisa Stalnaker.
  
  Parents:
  Quanah Parker (1845 - 1911)
  Cho ny (1863 - 1913)
  Spouse Nora Tabbanoid Parker (1885 - 1983)
  Children:
  Ollie Parker Wahkinney (1906 - 1993)
  Elmer Parker (1909 - 1988)
  Whitt Choney (1910 - 1994)
  Roy Parker (1911 - 1986)
  Simmons Parker (1916 - 1983)
  Baldwin Parker (1918 - 2012)]
  
  Inscription:  Native American Church [But note that the text above reports he had converted to the the Nazarene Church two years before his death.]
  
  Burial Cache Kiowa Comanche Apache Intertribal Cemetery, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  
  Created by Cokeman2 Mar 14, 2010
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #49710666, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49710666
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Sources

• 1. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 2. 1905 Indian Census Rolls, Comanche Tribe, Oklahoma
  • 30 June, Kiowa Agency, Page 22
• 3. 1911 Indian Census Rolls, Kiowa Comanche and Apache Tribes, Oklahoma
  • 30 June, Kiowa Agency, Comanche Tribe, Page 20
• 4. Parker Heritage Website