Life History

Notes

• The first wife was Wec-Keah.
  Children:
  A. Nau-Nocca (1873-1947), married Emmett Cox (1852-1927). Eleven children were born to this union, five of whom died when very young.
  B. Weyodi (variously known as: Wer-Yoh-Ti or Werare) (b.1879) married Louis Tamahkera (b. 1879).
  C. Woonardy (Wanada) married Harzy Page. No children. She attended Carlisle College in Pennsylvania and attended President Theodore Roosevelt's Inauguration with her father.
  D. Mary Pbutsi Pooche married Edward Hatch Clark.
  E. Topseup "Alice" married Earl Purdy (b. 1878). One son died in infancy. She raised a niece, Bobby Clark Bradley.
  --   Parker Heritage, http://www.parkerheritage.com/forum/topics/quanah-parkers-wives-and?groupUrl=quanahparkerfamilyhistory&groupId=2004583%3AGroup%3A8614&id=2004583%3ATopic%3A9139&page=3
  
  In the 1900 census of Oklahoma Territory, which including the Comanche Tribe, Weyodee (We rah ra) is enumerated with her Comanche husband Tah-ma-ke-ra and their two children.  Oddly, in this record, the enumerator has put the report of the number of children born and living on the line for her husband instead of Weyodee.
  
  1900 Federal Census, Oklahoma Territory, 11 June, Apache, Kiowa & Comanche Reservation, District 12, page 74A, Hse #744, Fam #749
  Tah ma ke ra Head Ind M 1876 24 Married 5 yrs 2 children/2 living OklaTerr OklaTerr OklaTerr Horse Herd [No rpt of ownership] Comanche Comanche Comanche
  We rah ra Wife Ind F 1880 20 Married 5 yrs no children rpt OklaTerr OklaTerr OklaTerr  Comanche Comanche Comanche
  Tah ma ke ra, Samuel Son Ind M 1896 4 OklaTerr OklaTerrOklaTerr Comanche Comanche Comanche
  Tah ma ke ra, Saphio Dau Ind F 1898 2 Single OklaTerr OklaTerr OklaTerr Comanche Comanche Comanche
  Weyodee's memorial on Find a Grave is extensive and includes a detailed obituary.
  
  They are living next in line with several of her father Quanah Parke's wives and some of the children still in their mother's home.  Note that her Quanah is reported as born in Texas, of paents both born intExas.  But the father of all the children is reproted as born in Oklahoma Territory instead of Texas.  If we had only this reprot to go by, then Quanah could not be the father of the children Honnnie, Laura and Kelsey reported here.  This is a strange enumerator error.
  
  1900 Federal Census, Oklahoma Territory, 11 June, Apache, Kiowa & Comanche Reservation, District 12, page 74A, Hse #744, Fam #749
  Parker, Quanah Head Ind M 1852 48 Married 24 yrs TX TX TX Farmer Owns Comanche Father Comanche Mother Comanche 1/2 White
  Parker, To nar sy  Wife Ind M 1865 35 Married 24 yrs 1 children/- living OklaTerr Comanche Comanche Comanche
  Parker, Wick e ah  Old Wife Ind F 1860 40 Married 22 yrs 4 children/- living OklaTerr TX OklaTerr Comanche Comanche Comanche
  Parker, Tope se up  Dau Ind F 1894 6 Single OklaTerr OklaTerr OklaTerr Comanche Comanche Comanche 1/4 White
  Parker, Ho pah rah  Mother-in-law W F 1810 90 Widow OklaTerr Unk Unk Comanche Comanche Comanche
  Parker, Chony Wife Ind F 1863 37 Married 24 yrs 4 children/2 living OklaTerr OklaTerr OklaTerr Comanche Comanche Comanche
  Parker, Honnie  Dau Ind F 1892 8 Single OklaTerr OklaTerr OklaTerr Comanche Comanche Comanche 1/4 White
  Parker, Mah Che to Wock Ki Wife Ind F 1862 38 Married 18 yrs 3 children/2 living OklaTerr OklaTerr OklaTerr Comanche Comanche Comanche
  Parker, Laura [Matches Bessie in other lists] Dau Ind F 1895 5 Single OklaTerr OklaTerr OklaTerr Comanche Comanche Comanche
  Parker, Topay Wife Ind F 1879 21 Married 6 yrs 1 children/1 living OklaTerr OklaTerr OklaTerr Comanche Comanche Comanche
  Parker, Kelsy Son W F [sic] 1 Single OklaTerr OklaTerr OklaTerr Comanche Comanche Comanche 1/4 White
  
  1905 Indian Census Rolls, Comanche Tribe, Oklahoma, 30 June, Kiowa Agency, Comanche Tribe, Page 22
  Ind Name Tah-ma-ke-ra   Male Husband age 30
  Ind Name We-rahre         Female Wif age 25
  Eng Name Samuel Male Son age 10
  Eng Name Sophia Female dau age 8
  Eng Name Benjamin Male Son age 5
  Eng Name Cynthia Female dau age 2
  
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  1914 Indian Census Rolls, Comanche Tribe, Oklahoma, 1 July, Kiowa Agency, Comanche Tribe, Page 2
  Tah mah ke ra  7  Head 1875 M
  We rah we Wife 1879 F
  Sophia Tah mah ke ra  Dau 1897 F
  Benjamin Tah mah ke ra  Son 1899 M
  Tah mah ke ra (Cynthia Ann)  Dau 1903 F
  Wilson Tah mah ke ra Son 1905 F
  Lewis Tah mah ke ra Son 1908 F
  Vance Tah mah ke ra Son 1912 F
  
  Samuel is listed in his household:
  Samuel Tah mah ke ra 7.25 1895 M
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  Weyodee Parker Tahmahkera
  Memorial
  Birth 1880 Cache, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  Death Jul. 27, 1965 Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  
  The Lawton Constitution, Page 1
  
  Tuesday, July 27, 1965
  
  Quanah Parker Daughter Dies
  
  Mrs. Werahre (Weyote) Parker Tahmahkera, 85, oldest surviving child of Comanche Chief Quanah Parker, died at 12:07 a.m. today in the Lawton USPHS Indian Hospital.
  
  A resident of Rt. 2, Indiahoma, she had been ill five months. She was born in Indian Territory near the present town of Cache. She was reared in Quanah Parker's Star House, which was located on his lands between Cache and the Wichita Mountains.
  
  She was born in 1880.
  
  Prayer services will be held at 7:30 p.m. today at Becker Funeral Home Chapel, Lawton, and will be conducted by Rev. Robert Chaat, of the Comanche Reformed Church.
  
  Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Comanche Reformed Church, north of Lawton, of which she was a charter member, Rev. Chaat will be in charge.
  
  Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Sophia Mahsetky, Apache; three sons, Ben and Lewis Tahmahkera, both of Indiahoma, and Vance T. Tahmahkera, Fort Worth.
  
  She is also survived by one brother, Tom Parker, Apache, last surviving son of the chief, and three sisters, Mrs. Alice Purdy, 414 Ferris, Lawton; Mrs. Wanada Page, Lawton, and Mrs. Neda Birdsong, Cache.  She is survived by 20 grandchildren, 68 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.
  
  She was a daughter of Quanah's wife Weckeah (Hunting For Something).  Historians list eight wives of the chief. The family considers Weckeah as the first wife.
  
  In 1884, four years after Mrs. Tahmahkera's birth, Quanah's 12-room mansion, the Star House with a roof bedecked with stars, was completed on the Parker Ranch 14 miles due west of Fort Sill.
  
  Her father, Quanah, was the son of a Comanche warrior and the white captive, Cynthia Ann Parker.  Cynthia was captured in Texas when she was 9 years old, in 1936. She lived as a Comanche, and was recaptured Dec. 18, 1860, by Texas Rangers. She returned to the Texas settlements, where she later died.
  
  Quanah became a chief, fought the whites at the Battle of Adobe Walls and elsewhere, and finally led his band of 100 warriors, 200 non-combatants and 1,400 ponies to Fort Sill and to reservation life June 2, 1875.  He became a cattle baron and a leader of his tribe during the reservation days.
  
  Before his death, he had the remains of his mother returned to Indian country and reburied at Post Oak Mission Cemetery between Cache and Indiahoma, in 1910.
  
  Quanah died Feb. 23, 1911. A granite shaft later was placed above his grave with the inscription:
  "Resting here until day breaks and shadows fall is Quanah Parker, last chief of the Comanches, born 1852, died Feb. 23, 1911."
  
  The cemetery and Star House were removed in the Fort Sill range expansion of the 1950s. Reburial of the remains of Quanah and Cynthia Ann was at Fort Sill, in August of 1957.  Other survivors attended, but Quanah's last surviving wife, Topay, and Mrs. Tahmahkera declined. A military escort went after them, but they did not come to the post.  Topay died Nov. 10 (19?), 1963.
  
  Another child of Quanah, Baldwin Parker, died Oct. 6, 1963."
  
  Obit provided by Lisa.
  
  Parents:
  Quanah Parker (1845 - 1911)
  Weckeah Parker (____ - 1923)
  
  Spouse Tahmahkera (1865 - 1930)
  
  Children:
  Samuel Tahmahkera (1896 - 1946)
  Sophia Mahsetky (1898 - 1979)
  Benjamin Tahmahkera (1898 - 1976)
  Cynthia Ann Tahmahkera (1904 - 1960)
  Wilson W. Tahmahkera (1905 - 1961)
  Lewis E. Tahmahkera (1909 - 1977)
  Vance T. Tahmahkera (1913 - 2002)
  
  Burial Cache Kiowa Comanche Apache Intertribal Cemetery, Comanche County, Oklahoma
  
  Created by Cokeman2 Mar 14, 2010
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #49710841, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49710841
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Sources

• 1. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 2. 1900 Federal Census, Oklahoma Territory
  • 11 June, Apache, Kiowa & Comanche Reservation, District 12, page 74A, Hse #744, Fam #749
• 3. 1905 Indian Census Rolls, Comanche Tribe, Oklahoma
  • 30 June, Kiowa Agency, Page 22
• 4. Parker Heritage Website