Cynthia Ann Parker or, as she came to be known, Na’ura, was born in Illinois’s Crawford County sometime around 1827. Her father, Silas M. Parker, along with brother James, traveled west with their families and established an eponymous fort in what is now Groesbeck, Texas. Although the outpost was heavily fortified, the colony met a grim fate at the hands of a nearby band of the Comanche people.