Prof. S. H. Pearl

Date: August, 1874

Location: Plymouth, New Hampshire, USA.

Professor S. H. Pearl, first Principal of N. H. State Normal School, died at Plymouth, N. H. in August, 1874. During his last night and two or three hours before he passed away, he appeared for a time to be looking up into one corner of the room with an intent, eager gaze. After some moments he turned quickly to one who was watching at his bedside and said earnestly: “Did you see them?” “See whom?” was the reply, for to our dull vision, nothing unusual had appeared. “Why, I saw my mother,” said he, and there evidently appeared to him to be someone with her at that time. His mother, however, had long been dead.

Gail Hamilton, X Rays (Hamilton, Mass: 1896), p. 105.