Unusual Source - Message from the Spirit World - Week 7 of #52Ancestors

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My great grandparents Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) and Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956) were married for almost 55 years. They married on November 5, 1884 at the home of the bride's parents in Le Roy, Genesee County, New York, and remained together until Charles' death on June 12, 1939. 

Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956) and her husband Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939)


I've been transcribing excerpts from Elizabeth's journals that she compiled in the 1930s and 1940s into books of  reminiscenses for family members. 

Elizabeth didn't talk much about her relationship with Charles before his death. And after his death, there were mentions of doing things alone for the first time. In December 1939, she didn't send out Christmas cards because it was something he always enjoyed - and mentioned how in the days leading up to the holidays in 1939, she had cried more than she had since his death. 

In early January, Elizabeth received a letter from her sister-in-law Sarah (1856-1941), wife of her brother Ezra Frank Coe (1853-1943), recounting information from their son Charles Albert (1890-1978). Sarah wrote: 

"I have been wanting to write something Albert told me about you. He knows a man who is interested in Spiritualism, and he has asked Albert to go with him a few times, but he is not interested in it, but this is what happened. The person asked Albert whom he had that had entered the spirit world recently. He told them he had an Uncle Charles who had gone recently. He said this uncle wants to give you a message for Elizabeth - they call her Lizzie. He said to tell her that he was happy, and that after a while she would come where he is, and that she was being looking after and would be all right." 

If you had asked me if I ever expected to see something about spiritualism from my great-grandmother, I'd have said - no way - based on what I know about her. 

I have to hope though, that the message from Charles sent through Albert and Sarah - brought comfort to Elizabeth as she continued on after his death 

And I suspect it did bring comfort to her - not only did she record it her diary in 1940 - but she also repeated the information in the manuscript she wrote for her descendants. 


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