Excerpt from The Rachel Plummer Narrative Capture of Fort Parker — inhuman butchery of its inmates Marvelous escape of my brother's wife and two children Mrs. Duty, my mother-ih-law, stabbed by the Indians and left as dead — sufferings of my family and those with us in escaping to the Settlement — order of troops to our relief and their recall to meet the Mexicans — the scene at the fort on my return with fourteen men.