The Coconino sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1891, 1891-10-15
UP IN HEAVEN.
The Strange, Weird Story Of tho Death
of Little Girl.

of q Little Girl.
A very strange and weird story
comes from San Jose, California. A
Mrs. Williams residing there relates
the following about one of her children:
daisy, my thirteeu-year old daugh-
ter, died. She called us all to her
bedside, and one by one bid us all
goodbye, and then she fell back and
died. Neighbors came in and all pro-
nounced her dead. She was cold as
ice her eyes were CLASSY, her limbs
perfectly stiff, and the usual deathly
pallor covered her features. She
ceased to breathe and her pulse quit
beating.
"She had been dead one half hour"
continued her mother "when suddenly
she opened her eyes and looked about
the room smiling, and seeing her little
sister, she said: 'Maudie. / have
come back to stay little while"
Here the father took up the narra-
tive, cautioning your reporter, how
ever, to make no mistake. saying:
II want you to give just the same
words she used, and you must not
change them. for / fear some great
calamity would happen to us If you
did"
'She then turned over In bed " con-
tinued Mr.. Williams, 'and slept till
night At about nine o'clock in the
evening she awoke. sat up in the bed,
and said: Mamma, / was dead, and
have been In heaven. / saw my little
sister Anna there. She was singing
and was just as happy as she could be,
and when she saw me she flew TO me
and took me to Jesus.
Her mother asked her where Jesus
was and how He looked. Oh, man.
ma, Jesus has feet and hands, and
looks like any other man. l saw God
near Jesus. and He was like a man,
too. Jesus took sister and me by the
hand and showed US all through heaven.
" i can't begin TO tell you all saw
in heaven. There were thousands and
thousands of angels flying all around
me, and soon met grandma who is
an angel now, and she kissed me many
times. / saw my uncle, too and
knew him as soon as / saw him."
Mr.. Williams says she has never
seen him on earth, neither had he
ever described him to her, but he
declared that she pictured him as ex-
actly as any one could by looking at
him.
al saw Ethel Brown and had forgot
ten all about her until / saw her.
Then | remembered how we used to
play and go to school together at Dor
land. | saw millions and millions OF
people in heaven. but did not see many
that | knew. Then Jesus took me by
the hand and led me to where / could
look down into hell. 1t seemed to me
that there were great many people
in hell, but | saw only one there that
knew"
Daisy told me the name of the woman
she saw, but Mrs. Williams said she
would rather not give the name, as
the woman had died a drunkard's
death.
Mr.. Williams said he told Daisy that
she was surely mistaken. but Daisy
was positive about the matter.
She also said: Il saw her. and I
know it was she. Oh, mamma It's an
awful place. Satan himself was there,
and called so loud that all the hollow
depths of hell resounded. / tell You
I'm not going to go to hell; Tn going
to go to heaven. Jesus told mo I
could now go back and tell my folks
and everybody saw what l had seen.
and If they did not believe me He
would send down my little sister Anna,
and IL they did not believe her He
would come Himself.
Papa do you believe what have
said? Well, papa If you do and also
do not swear any more the Saviour
said you could come to heaven, too.n
Such are tho wonderful words that
Daisy said when she recovered con-
seriousness, and they were repeated
again and again before several wit
nesses. She fingered along for a
month and it seemed at one time that
she would recover. but she died re-
Gently and was buried in Oak Hill
cemetery. All her relatives and many
living in the neighborhood believe
that she actually was dead and came
to life again. -Arkansaw Traveller.