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subota, 11.02.2017.
PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER SEES HER FUTURE HUSBAND
When 10th president of USA, John Tyler married for the second time, he was already in office, and already had eight children from the first marriage. He is remebered (along with annexation of Texas during his mandate) as the most prolific president, with, all in all, no less than 15 children. In June 1844 president Tyler was 54 years old, and his new wife Julia only 24, five years younger than his eldest daughter. This second wife bore him seven more children.
Importance for this story has only the youngest one, named Pearl (1860-1947). Pearl married William M. Ellis, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and lived near Roanoke, says Wikipedia. This marriage is somehow important for the story, which deals with both ESP phenomenon called precognition, and, I believe, also with reincarnation. O.K., here's the whole story.
In the year 1884/85 Pearl Tyler was a young girl living in her widowed mother's home in Richmond (father passed away more than 20 years ago). She was pretty, vivacious and charming. She was one of the most popular belles in Richmond, having a swarm of admirers about her. In spite of all the attention that she had, she remained fancy-free; she had yet to meet the man who could win her heart. One morning she came down for breakfast in a great flutter of excitament.
„Listen to me!“ she cried to her mother, and her sister-in-law. „Last night“ she went on „I met my fate! I saw the handsomest man I ever set eyes on in my life. He was sitting on the porch of a cottage on the side of a hill. And I walked up to him, and he rose and came to meet me. You never saw such a handsome man! So Byronic, with long, dark, curling hair and flashing eyes! He's the man for me!“
Of course this announcement was the signal for much good-natured teasing and laughter from the others. But, strange to say, on the two successive nights, Pearl had identical dream, and she reported the fact each morning afterwards. „Now I know I shall meet him some day“, she declared. And even to her sceptical family it did seem extraordinary that she should have the identical dream three nights insuccession.
It was not long after this thrice-enacted dream that Pearl Tyler, her sister-in-law and mother were sitting in the visitors'gallery at the state capitol, looking down on the assembled delegates in session. Suddenly, Pearl seized her mother's arm and eed under her breath „There – there is the very man of my dream! See!“ She indicated a gentleman sitting at his desk below. He was indeed a strikingly handsome man. His hair was worn long, and it was dark and curly. His collar was open as in the portraits of Byron, and he wore a silk handkerchief knotted loosely in a place of cravat. Pearl was quivering with excitement. „I'm sure! I'm sure! That is the very man!“
Mrs. Tyler beckoned to a gentleman whom she knew and asked him who was seated at the certain desk.
„That's Mr. Ellis, Ma'am, the member from Montgomery County.“
„Would you present him?“
„With pleasure.“ And shortly afterwards the friend brought Mr. Ellis to the gallery and introduced him to the three ladies. He was everything that Pearl had descrubed regarding the man in her dream. He was tall, strongly built, and of a particularly romantic aspect with his mane of dark hair, his regular features and expressive eyes. Altogether, he was quite in Byronic tradition.
When Pearl Tyler and Mr. Ellis lokked into each other's eyes a spark was touched off on the instant. An ardent courtship followed, which lasted only a month before Pearl Tyler stood up in her bridal veil to become Mrs. Ellis.
One more item for the corroboration was left for the day when, after the honeymoon, she arrived at her husband's home. She wrote at once to her mother, „It's a cottage, just outside Roanoke, situated on the hillside, exactly as I saw it in my dream.“
]William O. Stevens, „Mystery of Dreams“]
