The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-03

10 have come. and who was anxious 70
come. Her name was Mary Roff Afr
RON was present, and was delighted to
hear that Mary was coming back 10
earth.
The body Of Lurancy Vennum professed
the next day TO be tenanted by the spirit
OF Nary Ron, and begged to be allowed
TO 20 home to the Rods. But the Ven
NUNS were far from convinced that the
soul Of Mary Ron had entered into Luran-
cy's body. and. in spite OF the girls en-
treaties. they kept her with them.
Mrs Rolf and her daughter. Mrs Miner
va Alter, went to see the girl about
week afterward. Lurancy saw them COM
lnE, recognized them, even calling Mrs
Alter her sister and addressing her as
N ervie," the childhood name. After this
visit her desire to so home to the Roffs
increased. and at last Mrs. Veunum
yielded 70 IL, and on February H. 1875. the
girl took zap her residence with the ROffs
From this time onward" says DR.
Stevens, she seemed perfectly happy and
content. knowing every person and every
thing that Mary knew when in her orig
inal body from twelve TO twenty five
Wears before, recognizing and calling
By name those whe were friends and neigh
bOrs OF the family from 1852 10 1860, when
Mary died, calling attention 20 hun ireds
or incidents that transpired during her
natural life
Mr.. Rous house she had no knowledge
Of and did not recognize any OF Mr.. Ven
NUNS family, their friends or neighbors
yet Mr.. and Mrs. Nennum and their chill
oren visited her and Mr.. Rons family
she being introduced to her parents as to
any strangers. After frequent visits and
nearing them often and favorably spoken
OF she learned to be fond of them as ac-
quaintances. and visited them with Mrs
Rolf three times
she seemed natural easy affable and
industrious, attending diligently and faith
fully to her household duties, assisting
ing in the general work OF the family
as faithful. prudent daughter might be
supposed to do. singing. reading or talk
ms as opportunity offered. on all mat
tiers Of private or general interest to the
family"
A few incidents might be related Of the
many that convinced Mr.. and Mrs. Rolf
that the spirit speaking through Luraney
! Nennum's lips was in reality that Of their
lost daughter
During her life Mary Ron had known a
woman named Mary Lord, who afterward
married a Mr.. Wagner. Meeting her, she
said:
"oh. Mary Lord. you loook very nat
ural, and have changed the least OF any
one l have seen since l came back"
At another time she Immediately rec
ognized a Mrs. Parker and her daughter
Nellie, calling them both by name and
/ asking them whether they remembered
how she used to 30 to their house and
sing. This was twelve years before Lu-
rancy Nennum was born.
AT another time" said DR. Stevens
Mr. Rolf was sitting in the room wait
| ing for tea and reading the paper. Mary
| being out in the yard. He asked Mrs
Ron If she could find a certain velvet
headdress that Mary used to wear the
| year before she died; if so, to lay It on the
stand and say nothing about it, to see if
| the girl would recognize IL. Mrs. Roff
| readily found it and laid It on the stand
The girl soon came in, and imme-
| daitely exclaimed, as she approached the
stand, oh, there is my headdress 1 wore
| when my hair was short She then
| asked, Ma, where is my box Of letters q?
| Have you got them yet? Mrs Ron re-
] piled, Yes. Mary, l have some Of them.
She at once got the box with many let
| ters in it. AS Mary began to examine
/ them she said, Here Is a collar I tatted.
| Why did you not show me my letters and
/ things before? The collar had been pre-
| served among the relics OF the dead child
as one Of the things her fingers had
wrought before Lurancy was born; and
! so the girl continually recognized every
| little thing and remembered every little
/ incident of Mary Roff's girlhood"
/ Inc girl sSenl IOI MF6. BOu on Nav z.
/ 1873, and told her Lurancy Vennum was
coming back for a while. Then she passed
into a trance and for a few minutes Lu-
/ rancy Nennum controlled the body, ex-
/ pressed her surprise at finding herself In a
strange place and said she could not stay
! long enough for her friends to get to her.
| Then Mary Rolf came back When
/ asked how she felt In her new body, she
/ said: when l got into this body / felt
/ much as l did when 1 was here twelve
years ago This body seems as natural
/ as If ] had been born with it, yet / cam
/ not do with Il as / should like to-" She
/ did not seem to realize at first that this
was not her own original physical body,
/ until the angels explained IL to her and
! she had received information and instruc-
ton from her parents, sister, brother and
! friends about IL. natural did II feel to
/ her, after knowing adj the facts, that she
| could hardly feel it was not her own body,
born thirty years ago.
At another time DR.. Stevens was talking
/ with her about her life on earth before,
! and she spoke to him spontaneously OF
cutting her arm, asking him whether he
| had ever seen the scar He said no. "She
then proceeded to slip up her sleeve" he
says, "as If to exhibit the scar, but sud
/ denly arrested the movement, as IL by a
1 sudden thought, and quickly said: oh,
! this is not the arm; that one Is in the
! ground and proceeded to tell where II
/ was buried, and how she saw 1t done and
/ who stood around and how badly they
/ felt etc, but she did not feel bad. / heard
/ her tell Mr.. Rolf and the friends present, -
continues DR.. Stevens, how she wrote
1 to him a message some years ago through
| the hand of medium, giving name, time,
/ place. Also of rapping and of spelling out
! another message by another medium, Civ
! ing time, name, place, etc, which the par
/ ents admitted to be true. / heard her re-
late a story Of her going into the coun-
try with the men, some twenty odd years
ago, after a load Of hay, naming incidents
1 that occurred on the road, which two of
I the men distinctly remembered"
In this curious state the girl remained
| until May q. Toward the end Of this per-
/ iod she showed from time to time traces
! of Lurancy Yennum's personality, and
! throughout 1t she seemed to possess pow
/ ers of seeing the unseen and knowing the
unknown that puzzled her friends.
/ Lurancy took possession Of the body
4 for while on May 10 and had talk with
I her mother and on May q she announced
/ that she was going back to heaven about
/ II o'clock. She went about bidding all
/ her friends good-by, asked her mother to
/ give her little possessions to LuraDcy, and