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Ella Thorington Nash Relied on Her "Open Vision"

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A Ghostly Friend Visited This Chicago Medium and Suffragette

Did Ella Thorington Nash really receive a visit from a friend who provided an eye witness account of her own funeral and complained about her burial dress?

Ella Thorington Nash was a member of the Theosophical Society which had been founded in New York City in 1875. Theosophy is a system of beliefs and teachings that incorporate aspects of Buddhism and Brahmanism, especially the belief in reincarnation and spiritual evolution.

A well-known Chicago palmist and writer, Ella Thorington Nash, believed that she had “open vision,” that enabled her to see people who had crossed the border between life and death. In 1899, she told a Chicago Inter Ocean Reporter about one of her experiences.

A Deceased Friend Visits Ella Thorington Nash

Before one of her friends, a well-known suffragette died, Nash and two of their mutual friends had a long conversation and they arranged to be present at her funeral. Nash assumed that the suffragette's death would occur sometime comfortably in the future.

One day shortly after the conversation, Nash was sitting in her room busy with ordinary household occupations when her suffragette friend suddenly appeared in front of her, dressed in ordinary clothes.

Her friend told Nash about her death and about the fact that she had been cremated. She also told Nash that she regretted that her family had burned a certain gown which she had loved and one that her daughter enjoyed seeing her wearing. She was sad that her daughter now would never see her in that gown. “And she never did like the one I have on. Besides, they buried me in it,” the suffragette lamented.

A Living Friend Locked in the Crematorium

Then the suffragette started telling Nash about everything that had happened during her funeral, even mentioning the fact that a mutual friend had stayed to witness the transfer of her body to the crematorium, even after everyone else had left. Somehow she had taken the wrong exit from the crematorium and became locked in a large yard, with the early darkness coming on.

“She was frightened nearly to death, poor thing!” the suffragette told Nash.”I was extremely anxious about her until I knew that she had gotten out. I was very glad when the policeman helped her.”

Nash Verifies the Suffragette's Story

After the suffragette left, Nash sat down and wrote to a friend who had been close to the suffragette to find out if these things were all true. The friend wrote back, saying that the suffragette had died at the time she told Nash, her body had been cremated and through some unfortunate accident Nash had not been notified or invited to attend the funeral services.

The incident about the friend who had been accidentally locked in the large crematorium yard and become nervous for fear of having to spend the night there was also true in every respect. The woman had mentioned the incident to no one, yet Nash had heard about it first hand from the suffragette.

References:

Brooklyn Eagle, October 1, 1899, p. 37.

The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, John Michael Green, Llewellyn Publications, 2003.

 


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  • The Reach of Roses
  • Sparkling in Sunshine, Anchored in Wind - The Symbolic, Scientific Spider Web
  • Is Shishmaref, Alaska A Portent of Things to Come?
  • Moonlight Deer Hunting Along the Alpena -Amberley Ridge
  • The Sycamore Tree- Nature and Nurture Combined
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  • People and Places in Science
  • Dr. Glenn Seaborg-Renaissance Chemist, Renaissance Man
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  • Madam Sophie Blanchard, "Official Aeronaut of the Restoration
  • Sister Elizabeth Kenny Fought Polio with Physical Therapy
  • Maria Mitchell, America's First Woman Astronomer Demonstrated Women's Scientific Aptitude
  • Father Jerome Sixtus Ricard Becomes Padre of the Rains
  • The 1897 Andree Expedition Tries to Balloon Over The North Pole
  • Thure and Ludwig Kumlien Blazed Trails in the Scientific World
  • Science People
  • The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake: Marquis Pombal Uses Science to Rebuild
  • Increase Allen Lapham, Scientist and Pioneer Weather Forecaster
  • William Stead's Titanic Dreams
  • Poul La Cour, Danish Inventor, Teacher and Windmill Pioneer
  • The Fault Might Not Be New Madrid's After All
  • Storks are the Stuff of Legend and Life
  • Science Songs to Sing, Getting Ready for a Winter Fling!
  • Fiona, the Female Gopher Frog: A New Year's Story
  • The Scientific Lives and Irresistible Irruptions of Snowy Owls
  • 'Tis The Season to be Snowy and Scientific!
  • Choosing Your Artificial or Living Christmas Tree
  • A Christmas Eve Trip with the Scientific Santa Claus
  • Christmas Presents With No Children
  • Searching for the True Shamrock
  • Flowers are Entwined in Human Grief
  • Poetic About Pigeons and Dewy-Eyed About Doves
  • Novarupta Volcano Erupts and Blows Mt. Katmai's Top
  • Licorice Root to Leeches: Doctoring Progresses in Erie and Warren Counties
  • Licorice Root to Leeches: Doctoring in 19th Century Erie and Warren County Pennsylvania
    • Licorice Root to Leeches: Cholera Stalks Northwestern Pennsylvania
    • Licorice Root to Leeches: Aunt Nancy Range Heals in Pennsylvania
    • Licorice Root to Leeches: George McGuire Catches a Bad Cold
  • Licorice Root to Leeches
  • Science Fiction and Steam-punk Stories
    • Julia Wallingford's Intelligent Powers of Observation
    • The Mad Scientist and the Missing Ingredients
    • Savage Music
  • Speculation and Pure Speculation
    • Ella Thorington Nash Relied on Her "Open Vision"
    • Losing Out in Lovers Lane
    • The Train Chaser
  • Kingsville Digital