On another occasion she saved a child from drowning in a well, and again a man who had fallen in the lake at Nanticoke and who could not swim. It seemed an ironic twist of fate that Abigail Becker could save the lives of others, but members of her own family she could not save. Both her husband and one son fell victim to Lake Erie waters. The boy was drowned in Port Rowan Bay and his body never recovered.

Jeremiah Becker met his fate in another terrible gale on Long Point in the month of January, 1864. He was alone in his trappers cabin at the time. Rising waters of the lake forced him to leave the cabin. He evidently tried to make his way to another cabin three miles distant. He perished within half a mile of the cabin. His frozen body was not found for three months.

Abigail Becker had used the money presented to her by Buffalo merchants to purchase fifty acres of land on the 7th concession of North Walsingham, where the family continued to make its home after the death of Mr. Becker. They had started farming in a small way with two cows and a yoke of oxen but found it difficult to make ends meet and for this reason Mr. Becker had returned to his trapping on Long Point. Now the widow had the dual task of caring for the farm and raising the astonishing total of nineteen children. At the time of her husband s death, there were five boys and three girls in the family, in addition to the six stepchildren.