Author: Mary E. Cadwallader

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9781230412047

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... Hydesville in History. Testimony of Eye.Witnesses. Interesting details of the Manifestations Through the Fox Sisters Which Gave the World a New Religion. The birth-places of the greatest of the world's social, political, and religious reformations have generally been of insignificant and lowly aspect, and apparently under the most inauspicious circumstances for producing any great effect upon mankind. The scene of the Hydesville manifestations was a small wooden homestead, one of a cluster of houses like itself, in the little village of Hyd"esville, near to the town of Newark, Wayne County, New York (being so called after Dr. Hyde, an old settler, whose son was the proprietor of the house in question). The house was a humble frame dwelling fronting south, consisting of two fair-sized parlors opening into each other; east of these a bedroom and a buttery or pantry, opening into one of the sitting rooms; and a stairway between the buttery and the bedroom leading from the sitting room up to the half story above and from the buttery down to the cellar. This humble dwelling had been selected as a temporary residence during the erection of another house in the country, by John D. Pox, who, with his family, soon afterward became so prominently identified with the phenomena which have since become world famous. Their little dwelling, though so small and simply furnished as to leave no shadow of opportunity for concealment or trick, was the residence of honest piety and rural simplicity. All who ever knew them bore witness to the unimpeachable character of the good mother, while the integrity of the simple-minded farmers who were father and brother to the sisters who have since become so celebrated as the "Rochester Knockers" stands proved beyond...