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| Parker County |
When I was a little kid one of my parents’
friends teased me that I was actually Cynthia Ann Parker and had a son named
Quanah. Although I never believed him, Cynthia Ann and Quanah populated my
imagination for years; there were days that I was a Comanche looking for a
place to put my campfire and build my teepee. Eventually I learned that Parker
County was named for State Representative Isaac Parker, the uncle of Cynthia Ann
Parker. The town of Weatherford is
the seat of Parker County and the place my parents headed when they wanted to
get married just days before my dad was shipped out to Hawai’i in World War II.
Since none of us had been to Weatherford in a while we decided to go take a
look at the courthouse and have lunch on the square. It surprised us all at the
time it took to get from south of Fort Worth to Weatherford. The last time we
made this journey it took at least two hours; this trip was only about 45
minutes around the highway.
