Captured in the Kiowa/Comanche raid on Ft. Parker in 1836, Rachel spend about 18 months with the tribe before being ransomed by William Dunahue of Santa Fe. Accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Dunahue on a visit to Independence, Missouri, where she had the pleasure of meeting and embracing her brother in law, L.D. Nixon and by him was escorted back to her people in Texas. (See kaylee38 [http://kaylee38.homestead.com/Captives.html] for a full account of her travails and excerpts from her diary.)
Rhonda Cravins (Bivin-Metcalf Family Tree [http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rmc373&id=I4942]) states that the Parker Genealogy Chart from Old Fort Parker, Texas shows that Rachel remarried, but her second husband's name is unknown.
