The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-09-14

ing there making her evening sup
plications.
She moved with a daughter to
Texas and had been living in that
State for n number OF years when
one day l entered the room which
she had occupied while with us,
and there, kneeling beside the lit
tie table, her Bible before her, was
my great-grandmother She smiled
at me and then pointed upward,
and then seemed to fade into
nothingness.
1T was broad day and l could
hardly credit my senses, but l
told members of the family and ex-
pressed the belief that grandma
was dead. The following day we
received news of her death, and
she had passed away at the very
hour Of her appearance to me. e.They
said at the last she had smiled and
pointed upward"
l. In the party was man of af-
fairs whose success in business and
practical ways gave weight to the
following contribution:
Il have never seen but one ghost.
Ihat was severalh2ears ago, before
my mothers deal
had been fox hunting on a
clear, moonlight night, and on
coming home was met by the stable
boy, who told me that my mother,
VINO had been an invalid for sew
eral years, was much worse. 1t was
The fall of the year, and | remem-
Dered noticing, as l passed through
The gate, that a pile of dry leaves
mad accumulated in front of it.
and as l walked through them |
must see that the gardner have
them removed the next morning.
did not enter the house at
once, but sat down on a bench on
d side porch, thinking l would col
lect myself after the shock Of
the stable boys news. be-
lore going into my mothers room.
My mother was a very charitable
woman and was greatly beloved.
among her pensioners was a Mrs.
Brown, poor widow, dead for
several years at the time of which
L am speaking. This poor wo-
man had been an especial pet of
my mothers.
AS l sat idly looking out into
the grounds, l thought | saw a
woman come down the lane and
pass through the gate. was es-
peclally struck with the fact that
when she passed through the pile
OF dead leaves there was not a rus
Tie OF leaf, so far as could
near. She was dressed in black and
came on quickly down the walk
and passed me with face averted.
gong into the house. She did not
make sound, and passed so near
me as almost to brush against me.
seemed to recognize something
vaguely familiar in the figure.
presently, without a sound she
came from the house and passed me
again, going as she had come,
through the leaves and on up the
lane. l reused myself wondering if
could have been dreaming, and
went into the house, washed nv
lace and hands and went down to
mothers room.
AS | bent to kiss her and asked
sollcitiously if she was feeling bet
ter, she said:
"'oh, much better! All day L
nave been suffering SO with my
mead, but a little while ago /
thought that Mrs. Brown came in
mere and bent over me and laid
her hand on my head and soothed
all the pain away, and now l am
In now pain at ALL
Then | realized that the figure
that had seemed so familiar was
that of Mrs. Brown, dead many
years ago, but who, | firmly be-
i1eve entered my mothers sick
room that night and ministered to
her.
Il was visiting relatives in North
carolina" one Of the group said.
one of the girls whom 1 was visit
ing had given a party and we had
Deen very gay all the evening, so
L had gone to bed with E0 sense of
uneasiness about any Rnember of
my family, who were in a distant
state; and, so far as knew, well
| dreamed that i saw my mother
lying on her bed white and i'll, and
ABOUT her all per children gather
ea, with the exception of myself 1
tnoueht l stood far off, struggling
" get 10 ner through a heavy white
nlIst thaN seemed to hold me i'm
p[lsoheH. The dream came to me
tnree times, and at daylight / arose
anu went to my aunt'S room, tell
ing her of the vision and the anx-
lepy | felt about my mother.
The family tried to laugh me out
Stf my fears, but / persisted in my
belief that my mother was ill. No
bad tidings came that day, but sew
written on the night of my dream,
eral days later / received a letter,
telling me that my mother had been
taken i'll suddenly and her life
despaired OF that night, but was
pronounced out of danger at the
time of my sisters writing. All of
the children but myself had been
gathered about her bedside, and
believe my mothers spirit called