San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-06-15
DEATH In LIFE.
,s,.,,lIur story OF Suspended Anlmatlon---0ther
Eases or the Same Strange Phenomenon.

There ID very bttahBo stoty report
"A from East Boston. On Friday, the
10Th inst. there died at the residence
Of Amos r. Lovejoy, l57 Webster
street, a young lady named Hattie G..
Craig, lacking few days only Of being
81 wears of age. Her death WIS pre-
ceied by q sickness of nearly a year,
and the disease of which she died was
clearly of consumptive nature. Pre-
vious to her prostration she visited
some friends at Ticonderoga, N. Y,
and while there it is believed that her
blood became poisoned by some means
or other, and consumtion ensued before
the primary cause was discovered or
removed. The deceased was most
estimable young lady in every respect,
and was an active member of the Sun.
day.school of the Warren Avenue Bap-
tist Church, of which Rev. o. p. Gift
ford is pastor. Many of the 'circum-
stances following the death and proceed
ing the burial of the young lady are of
a peculiarly interesting, il not of dis
tressing nature. On the morning of
the 18th, the long-sufering patient
seemed to be rapidly nearing the end,
and at II o'clock she appeared to have
breathed her last. The stricken family
surrounded the bedside, and there were
the usual manifestations of grief at the
loss, tempered, perhaps, with feeling
of relief that the poor girls sutferings
were over. The eyes of the young lady
were tenderly closed by the sorrowing
grandmother, end the body was left
alone with the weeping father. He re-
meined for about half an hour in the
chamber of death, and then took
his leave with reluctance. Just as he
had turned his back upon the beloved
form he was startled by movement of
the body, and exclamation simultane'
ously OF
"pApA, PAPA, PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME-"
When he turned around he saw, with
delight and establishment, that his
daughter was not a corpse, but an &C.
tual, living and conscious being, endowed
with as much intellect and strength as
at any time during the last part of her
sickness. Of course there were now
great Joy and CONSERVATION throughout
the household. When she had become
somewhat calm, Miss Craig, with smile
and countenance angelic beyond des-
cription, said:
@Oh, papa dear, do you know where
I have been?"
"No, Hattie, tell me where you have
been; let me know all about it," an
swered the overjoyed father.
ooh, papa, have seen heaven, and
I am to have my health restored to me
on certain conditions" she answered in
great glee.
"What are these conditions, and are
you willing to submit to them?" asked
the father.
eyes, papa; certainly am"
"But what are they, dear?" still
queried the parent.
II cannot reveal them to you now,
papa. But, oh, I saw such beautiful
things in heaven"
"Tell me, won't you, all about who
and what you saw. Come now, that's
good girl"
"Oh, saw them all; saw them all,
papa; and I'm going to heaven again,
and when I go don't let them put me
into the ground until you are sure L am
lead"
During the rest of the day, up to 6
o'clock in the evening, the poor girl
was alternately in conscious and
condition. In her lucid mo-
nents, which were frequent and pro-.
onged, she all the while insisted that
SHE HAD BEEN IN HEAVEN,
out no inducement could tempt her to.
reveal the splendors and delights OF
what she saw on the golden shores. She
is said to have been impressed with an
desire, even an absolute
onging to return. But why? If the
charms Of this mundane sphere were
described to her, they were probably
cold and repulsive compared with what
she had seen on the shores beyond. 1t
IS intimated that the young lady's ex-
,use for not betraying the visions OF
her trance was that, if she disclosed
hem, she would be forced to inhabit
his cruel and transitory world. Silence
silence-about what she had
seen was the condition of her return to
;he celestial world. In the latter part
Of the afternoon the young lady's con-
lition was changeable. Said her father
20 Herald attache: "She had five or
nix spasms, and in the last one she was
II the most excruciating agony, and
BEGGED Me TO KILL HER.
We had been giving her morphine, and
half dose was now administered. a
title later we gave her another half
lose, and she became easier and con-
inued without pain until 6 o'clock,
yhen she died, seemingly without par
icle of suffering. She called all her
riends to the bedside before she died,
the father in his account of
he eoo,,o ao,J tolLod vrifb them ali