Isaqueena and her husband went to settle not far from Keowee on a mountain just outside the present day city of Walhalla. There they built a house into the huge stump of a tree. While out taking care of life's daily chores, she realized that she had been spotted at a distance by some Cherokee. Since her famed trek, she had been captured once and had escaped. She knew that they would send a party out to hunt for her. She handed her infant child to her husband to, in some stories leave for a while, but in others, hide quietly in the stump house (The mountain is called Stumphouse Mountain and this is one of about three stories about the name's origin.)and set out to lead the search party awry.
When they spotted her, she ran to the top of a falls and jumped. She knew where to jump and landed in a spot where she was able to hide behind a wall of water. The group searched for her but could not find her; finally leaving with the assumption that she must have jumped to her death and washed downstream to somewhere they couldn't find..
Isaqueena then returned to her family and they moved a bit further from Keowee.