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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0421]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Grandsons of Quanah Parker carry the Comanche chief's coffin in reburial rite Friday at Fort Sill for the famed Indian and his mother, Cynthia Ann Parker. The flag draping the coffin was later presented to one of Parker's daughters, Mrs. Wanada Page, Lawton."
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0423]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Crying into a handkerchief as friends walked by following reburial rites for Chief Quanah Parker Friday is his daughter, Mrs. Wanda Parker, above center. At right is her neice, Mrs. Teresa Komah, Lawton. A solemn, colorful ceremony under blazing mid-afternoon sun marked the reburial of the last chief of the Comanches, Quanah Parker, and his mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, in the post cemetery here Friday. A crowd o… more
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0424]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a high-ranking serviceman in dress uniform walking the way for the coffin being carried to the site, both service and civilians are carrying the coffin, people lined-up along the pathway, and more.)"
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0426]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Last Chief Of The Comanches, Quanah Parker, found a final resting place at Fort Sill Friday. His body and that of his mother, Cynthia Ann parker, were reburied in Post cemetery. The ceremony, shown above, climaxed a stormy family controversy over where the new grave should be after the army took over old Post Oak Mission Cemetery, the original burial site, as part of a guided missle site."
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0422]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of many at a funeral that has a tent, many the far around the tent are in uniform, a number of them is regular clothing, the guy in the foreground right is sitting and holding a hat, and more.)"
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0425]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of many soldiers in form for burial ceremonies wearing silver-metal helmets, civilians at the far middle left, graves in the foreground, and more."
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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