ASPR Journal, V14 - Iapsop.com

Three Evidential Chenoweth Sittings.
not especial monuments but
(Yes.)
a walk [ N. R.] walk walk and beds n-bushes something your
mother liked ·
(What was it that mother liked?)
small flower
(Yes.)
lily of valley
(Yes.)
-you know
(Yes, I know.) [69]
We are not there
(No.)
but with [ N. R.] the children with and the [Indian] babies I Old
grandpeople now grand parents Grandpa and Grandma now
(Yes.)
[Indian] F F r
69. Not until more than four years after this sitting did I learn that my
sister remembers that some tilies of the vatley, which mother loved, were once
planted in our burial plot but did not thrive welt. As I had nothing to do
with the planting, I had forgotten it Also, I discovered, at the same time
that my brother had for some time past (how long is uncertain) made arrangements
with the caretakers at the cemetery to keep the plot in good
order for an annual fee. This would naturatly include the trimming of
paths and shrubbery and cutting of grass. No attempt has been made at
anything in the way of monuments. merely the "fixing up of the lot "-and
this by my brother who had done it entirely independently and who knows
no more of these communications than any total stranger to me does. My
brother may have mentioned his arrangements about the plot at some time,
but I have not the slightest recotlection of the fact and had not at the time
of this sitting. He and I were together in the cemetery nine and a half
months prior to the sitting and it is possible he referred to the matter then,
to me or to others.
I have had no plans in mind for rile plot in the cemetery, tho I
should be more interested in the planting than in monuments of any kind.
It is true that my mother liked lilies-of-the-vatley. She had large beds of
them in her garden. On January 18, 1920, on reading final proof of this
record to my sister, I learn that "bushes something your mother liked " is
most pertinent, mother having tried twice after fatlrer's death to get some
hardy bushes to grow in the cemetery plot, as the family decreased in numbers
and permanent planting became more desirable. I either did not know or
had entirely forgotten this up to this moment, and did not recognize its
meaning at the time of the sitting.
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