Hannah Fisher (Atherton) - Stony Creek Township Incident

The same article as above also tells of another dangerous encounter with the local Native Americans which Benjamin's wife had some years later at the family's Hoosier frontier homestead:

"The Indians used to be daily visitors at their [Fisher's] house. His [son Charles'] mother had a large pewter basin that held about two gallons; in this she would put a generous quantity of milk, break in bread and putting down as many spoons as there were Indians, let them seat themselves on the floor around the bowl and eat.

"One time four of five Indians came, one or two of them being the worse for liquor. Mrs. Fisher was sewing with the children playing about her. The Indians asked for food. She told them that she did not have any. At this one of the drunken Indians took hold of her hair and taking out his long knife, run the back of it around her head saying, 'me scalp white woman.' The two older children ran out to call in a man who was chopping nearby, while young Charles darted under the bed. When the man came in from outside, he reached up and took down one of the guns in the cabin, when the Indians run out, mounted their ponies and rode away."