Quahna Parker

CEDAR LAKEOR LAGUNA SABINAS. Largest Alkali Lake on Plains; old Indian camp and burial site; birthplace of Quanah Parker.
A skirmish between Indians and United States Cavalry under command of
Lieutenant John L. Bullis took place here in October, 1875.




MONUMENT ERECTED 1936


BY THE STATE OF TEXAS


The Cedar Lake/Lagunas Sabinas historical marker is on private land, 26
miles northeast of Seminole. Whether the assertion is correct that
Quanah Parker was born at Cedar Lake, the legend is carved in stone at
the site.



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The museum legend
posted with the photograph identifies the man with the pipe as E. W.
Gray of Great Britain and the other white man as Ike Pickering, a
lifelong friend of Quanah Parker and the uncle of L. M. “Soapy” Walker
of Greenville, Texas, who donated the photograph from the collection of
his mother, Mrs. M. B. Walker, a Gaines County pioneer. Names
handwritten on the back of the photograph correspond with those
identities except the man on the left is identified instead as “J. B.
MR. GRAY.” Date and place of the photograph are unknown.