James W. Parker interested in Cynthia Ann but rather in her uncle James who had searched for her for eight years after her abduction." Historians and film critics have speculated on the inspiration for the character of Ethan Edwards in the John Ford movie The Searchers, with many saying that the character was based on James Parker. Critics and historians noted that James W. Parker, Cynthia Ann's uncle, spent much of his life and fortune in what became an obsessive search for his niece, like Ethan Edwards in the film. In addition, the "rescue" of Cynthia Ann, during a Texas Ranger attack on
John Uzzell Edwards painters including Brendan Stuart Burns and Martyn Jones. He died in March 2014. John Uzzell Edwards John Uzzell Edwards (10 October 1934 – 5 March 2014) was a Welsh painter. He was also the father of artist Charles Uzzell Edwards. Uzzell Edwards was born in 1934, in Deri; a coal-mining village in the Rhymney Valley. He attended Bargoed Grammar School and later took a series of jobs, where he was made redundant but made enough money to be able to move to Paris in 1956, where he could pursue his interest in painting, visiting galleries and museums in the French