Evening journal., 1899-08-02
THREE SETS OF TEETH.
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REMARKABLE WOMAN WHO IS "a
YEARS OLD AUGUST f6.

SHE SAYS SHE DIED ONCE AND
REVIVED, AS HER EARTHLY
WORK HAD NOT BEEN FIN
IsHED.
Chester, Aug. Mrs. Mary Pidcock,
who will be "a years old on August 16,
says that she was dead a number of
years ago, and as her work had not
been finished she was returned to this
world to finish it. She has been able
to read the papers and sew all her life
until quite recently without the use of
glasses, and is now getting her second
sight and has the third set OF teeth.
at least she says they are about to
cone through the gums, and she open
ed her mouth for a reporter to make
an examination, saying;
THE children say that It is a hard
ening Of the gums and not teeth, but
I've had two sets OF teeth and know
what it feels like TO have them COM
ing through the gums"
There are evidences OF teeth, and II
is not a pet theory OF the old lady,
who has sent for her doctor to come
from Philadelphia to lance her gums.
Mrs. Pidcock is a resident OF Holmes
burg, on the outskirts of Philadelphia,
where She has lived for the past fifty
years. she is the widow OF Emanuel
Pidcock. who dropped dead on the
streets OF Philadelphia twenty-five
years ago. She sent three sons to war,
one OF whom was killed in action, and
the other two contracted disease and
died. She has one son living, James
Pidcock, whom she was visiting Mon
day. This son is the man who present
ed Admiral Schley's wife with the
workbox containing $4,000 pieces Of
wood at the time OF the reception in this
city. She travels about alone, and last
year she went to Asbury Park for
months vacation. and was unaccom-
panied during the entire stay. She then
gave the following interesting account
of the time when she was thought to
be dead and the arrangements had
been made for the funeral:
Il have not had a well day for sixty
years" continued the old lady. Il have
suffered great pain hom abscesses on
the liver. and / am not free from mat
pain now. Once passed into the other
world and they We're preparing to bury
me. People say l had q dream and
that it was a trance, but know il was
not. saw the Almighty God and
Jesus Christ, and witnessed the. great
book opened. There were the records
There were sins charged against me-
but none but what had been repented
OF.
i knew nothing Of what was going
on in this world. I was dead. Just be-
fore breathing my last gave direc-
tons as to material things. The doc
tors We're there beside my weeping
family and friends. Then the physi-
clan said as the breath was leaving
me; Now she is gone am so glad.
because know she has been . great
sufferer and now she is happy. The
undertaken came. l was put on a cool
ing board and prepared for burial. Sew
eral hours after that whAe friends
were still watching. they noticed was
moving. Then the cry went up that
was returning to life. The doctor
was sent for and soon breathed again.
The only reason can give for the
straRee occurrence was that was told
in the other world that my work was
not tfnished and so had to return. I'll
so home when my work is finished
That was thirty-nine years ago. and
am still alive and in possession OF
all my faculties"
Mrs. Pidcock is Baptist. and has
been connected with church work for
over fifty years.
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