ASPR Journal, V14 - Iapsop.com

Three Evidential Chenoweth Sittings.
(I suppose so.)
but she says she is fast losing her predjudices [.ric]
(Good! I thought I saw evidence of her presence before.) [43]
yes and do you know M [pause] ari
(Yes.)
· an [moaned]
Mari Marian [ 44]
(Yes, I know Marian.)
and L [moaned; Indian] L [ 45]
(L; that is right. Take it easy.)
I love to be here writing [ 46] [read" today" and not corrected]
(Good! I love to have you.)
Papa says tell little girl that he has had to do most of his care
taking from this side but he has helped in some of the studies and
that his love is a power
(Yes, I am sure.)
for good to you [ 47] who says you ought to be married and have a
home of your own Aunt Aunt does [N. R.] Auntie does (48]
[pause] Grandfather T [N. R.]
(S, L, or T?) [Pause.] (Print it, Mother.) T [promptly
" printed "]
43. "Sarah", my grandmother [Note 35), an orthodox reiigious womaJJ,
wife of a Baptist minister, very liable to hold such prejudices as are here
indicated. I never knew her, so can only conjecture. She died before I
was born. The "my mother" was written after I had framed the mental
inquiry, ''which mother?" as mother had called her mother-in-law "Mother"
in life, and had called her own mother by another name.
44. " Marian", then ill and in hospital, and later coming during convalescence
to the home above· referred to. Mother's grandchild.
45. " L ;,, the initial of Aunt Elizabeth's nickname and the first syllable
of my sister's name, in sound.
46. This aside seemed to have the effect of relieving the tension due to
getting so many names and initials through.
47. My father, whom I usually called "Papa", died while I was a high
school student Was always much interested in my progress in school.
His characteristics seem more evident than my mother's in me, and more
evident in me \han in his other children, as far as I know and can judge.
At the time of the sitting, he had been "dead" half of my lifetime.
48. Very apt. "A unties do" would have made the statement even
better. This was a most familiar phrase on their tips during my girlhood
and young womanhood when they were much in our home.
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