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Rosa Anna Mary Miller |
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Rosa |
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21 May 1830 |
Madison, Geauga, Ohio  |
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Female |
| Died |
9 Nov 1894 |
Chicago, Cook, Illinois |
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I38058 |
Nagel |
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18 Apr 2020 |
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 | Born - 21 May 1830 - Madison, Geauga, Ohio |
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| Married - 1 Sep 1853 - Madison, Geauga, Ohio |
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 | Died - 9 Nov 1894 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois |
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 | Rosa Miller Avery.
A Woman of the Century; Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life by Frances Elizabeth Willard and Mary Ashton Rice Livermore. Published by Charles Wells Moulton 1893 Chicago, Buffalo and, New York. Page 39. |
 | One Breath.
In the episode "One Breath" Scully was visited by her dead father. Rosa Avery made a reappearance at her funeral. In her book "Automatic or spirit writing, with other psychic experiences" Sarah Underwood wrote:
I will try to write you a brief account of my experience, at Rose Cottage on the 12th of November, 1894. It so chanced that I was seated, when the services began, in the back parlor just in front of the mantel, which faces, if you remember, the little alcove, where Rosa wrote. This room was her abiding place—the " home-nest" for her.
The clergyman stood just in front of the alcove. Shortly after he began to speak, I was conscious of a mist rising just at the entrance of the alcove—his words, became to me, more and more indistinct, as the mist took shape, and form—when lo! Before my eyes stood our friend, issuing from the alcove. I saw her dress, even to details—it was a lovely robe—rose-colored with a surplice waist, folding over to the left side, at which point, long ribbons fell. It was not till afterward, that I recognized the significance of the color, which illustrated her love, so marked for roses, while in the body. She passed in and. out amongst the people assembled there, as if at a reception, and finally came and stood before me, uttering in most emphatic tones these words: “E. D., I am risen.”
I was somewhat surprised afterward to learn, that, when, before Mrs. Avery died she was asked if she would manifest herself, when out of the body. Her reply was, ' ' I will come to either Sara Underwood or E. D., for they are my true friends. She has come to me in various ways, since then. At one time, I was running over some chords on the piano—when suddenly Mrs. A. stood behind me—saying, "O, the inexpressible freedom of being able to go, where and when one chooses. " But I have omitted in my descriptions of Rosa's coming on the 12th of November, one of the important points. She was no longer large and portly—only well-proportioned, and young in figure, as in face.
On our way to Graceland, Mrs M.D., and a Mrs. R., were in the carriage with me. Mrs. R. was Mrs. Avery's friend, when they were girls. She voluntarily said to me, knowing nothing of my vision, "Mrs. Avery and I used to wear each other's dresses when we were girls, and, I was much smaller than I am now." Mrs. R. is probably about my size. This establishes to me the youth that returns to us when the body is laid aside. I knew nothing of Mrs. Avery's form in earlier life—but so vivid was she in this vision, that in my thoughts of her now, I never associate her with the large body she wore on earth. |
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