Killed by a roving band of Indians at Short Creek, along with 15 yr old daughter Hannah and infant child, while husband was away at a house raising. (Sources cited: Cramcer, Gibson Lamb, History of the Upper Ohio Valley, (Brant & Fuller, Madison, WI, 1890); and Meade, Glenna, Van Meter, 16201990 (Seattle, WA, 1990).)
