American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1858-04-16
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they can of the following extraordna-
Try narrative. For our own part wo
are so constituted (phrenologically)
that we find it hard to believe any
thing without "the documents. The
account seems to be well authenticated.
Ed. AN. UNION.
Remarkable Angelic Visitation in Han
cock County, Ohio. nr
l According to the most accurate and
reliable information We can get, Or
ange township, in the southern corner
of Hancock county, has recently been
made the favored locality of one of
these remarkable visitations which
the people have learned to regard as
very few and far between'-an angel
visit. We briefly give the particulars
as we received them, from source
that all will concede is entirely relia-
bic and entitled to confidence. Some
time in August last, a bright intelli.
gent little girl, aged five years, daugh-
ter of MIR. Charles, who resides in the
locality described, while near the we'll
in the yard, about noon of tho day,
seemed to discern something high up
in the air, and descending towards her.
The attention of the child was so much
drawn to the object, that her gaze be-
came rivited upon it, and as it drew
nearer, she was observed to make fire.
qucnt attempts to reach it with her
hands and form closer acquaintance
with the strange visitant. When the
mother of the child was called to the
scene, the little girl informed her that
she was in presence of an angel; that
she had talked with it, that it had made
communications to her; and further
} more gave u description of it, according
in every particular with the generally
received impression of the appearance
of these messengers from above. To
satisfy herself there could be no dclu-
sion in the matter, the mother entered
: into conversation with the stranger,
and after being satisfied with the real.
ity OF the interview-an after having
seen and talked With tie angel face to
tace-and after receiving information
from it of the precise time when her
own death would occur-she retired
: from the spot, taking her little girl
with her, and the angel waving its
bright wings, returned heavenward.
When the mother and child were a.
lone, they talked freely of what they
had seen and heard, and the mother S
sadness was made deeper by the art.
less story of the child, who said that
, "the angel told her she would die lust
two months from the time she first saw
it, at precisely twelve o'clock and twcn-
: ty-fve minutes; that she would be three
: days in dying; that her death would be
unlike that of others, that her friends
would suppose her to be in trance;
that her eyes would not be closed; that
her funeral sermon would be preached
In three weeks after, in the new school
house OF the neighborhood, by a man
whom, with his horse and buggy, she
described, and that her friends would
nave dlthculty in procuring the hoase
tor the occasion. The mother kept
the sad secret to herself, and waited
tor the appointed time, hoping that all
might yet go well with her and hers,
and not caring to be reckoned as one
who would attempt to revive the de-
funct doctrine of spiritualsm. But
with the time came the terrible blow.
Three days before the time predicted
for her death, the little girl fell upon
J the floor, from whence she was taken
to bed, and at the hour and minute
foretold, on the day brcathcd her last.
Her eyes remained open after death,
and could not be closed. A few days
after her burial, as Rev. ii. p. Dast
was passing that way, a friend of Mrs.
Charles requested him to tarry while
and preach the little girls funeral ser.
mon. The reverend gentleman excus-
ed himself on the ground of having
prior engagements but promised to do
80 in short time. His person and
equipments corresponded in the most
minute particulars with the prophetic
description, and when he did return
to redeem him his promise, the work
men who had built the new school
house, having lien upon it, refused
to let it be open for the funeral SER
vice; but subsequently they gave up the
| key, and tho sermon was preached at
the exact time predicted --Rnton (O.)
Republican, March 12.
Mr.. Spencer, Of Washington county
who was injured some time since by an