Margaret Mann Foutz — Survival and Protection at Haun's Mill

During the Haun's Mill Massacre on October 30, 1838, Margaret Mann Foutz's husband, Jacob Foutz, was severely wounded. Margaret survived the violence and, in the immediate aftermath, demonstrated remarkable providence and courage by returning to the site of the massacre the following morning to search for her husband amidst the chaos and danger to ensure his survival and recovery.

Fuller account of this event (in the witness’s own words):

Grace Foutz Boulter was to record the Haun's Mill incident, quoting Margaret Mann Foutz, who was present that day: 'On the way to mill, in the first house I came to there were three dead men. One a Brother McBride, was a terrible sight to behold, having been cut and chopped and mangled with a corn cutter. I was told that he was a survivor of the Revolutionary War. The bullets whistled by me like hailstones, and cut down the bushes on all sides of me.'