Seattle 6 Century 19
Ray is currently an expert on Seattle history. Level I *
The match of this Civil War General and brother-in-law of Ulysses Grant to this current-life physician was made based on a familiarity of tone of voice on the phone, and later upon a past life flashback and recognition when meeting in person. A photo was located within a few weeks. Level D Frederick's brother - George W. Dent
Bailey Gatzert / M. Bailey
This match was found based on synchronicities in a dream. My friend Mayo passed on in 2005. He will be missed, but not forgotten. Level B
Livonia Gertrude Boren
Based on immediate recognition upon meeting in a job interview where the familiarity was mentioned. The historical photo was found a year later on a recognition of the name Gertrude (
Isabelle Eldrige emigrated to the
Immediate recognition upon meeting. Level B
President Benjamin Harrison / Warren Jefferson
Warren is the author of "The World of Chief Seattle - How Can One Sell the Air?". This match was based on Cyndy wondering who had rendered such an accurate likeness of Chief Seattle. An intuition led her to ask the author for his photograph. Upon receiving it, recognition was immediate. Below are two newspaper accounts regarding President Harrison and his connection to Native Americans. Warren currently has an interest in writing, and in studying Native American cultures. Level D Chief Seattle's daughter, Angeline, was seated to the right of the arch. The Post-Intelligencer of the day described her as “Angeline, last of the race of royal barbarians who once ruled in the bays and forests of the Sound.” Originally she was going to dress in native dress but, as the Post-Intelligencer continued, “though shriveled and almost bent double with age, she was gaily attired in a blue gingham dress with a bright red shawl over her round shoulders and a red bandanna over her head ... The piece of withered royalty gazed from the other side with a wondering air at the chief magistrate while he in turn, having been appraised of a meeting with the daughter of the one-time ruler of the broad lands about the Duwamish, returned the gaze with every appearance of being interested” -Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 7, 1891
Princess Angeline remained there for most of the afternoon as a great attraction to out-of-town people. Nearby was a “life-sized picture of old Chief Seattle seated in a canoe, representing him as he arrived in
* The treaty guarenteed the Wenatchis a 36 square mile reservation around their fishery..... By the late 1800's, whites were settling in the area, and the railroad was making its way toward the fishery Smallpox and other epidemics had reduced the tribe from about 2,000 in 1780 to a few hundred. The Wenatchis almost got their reservation surveyed in 1892, when President Benjamin Harrison signed an executive order. But President Grover Cleveland took office the next year and his administration stopped the process... (A forgotten people, a lost homeland - July 17, 2002 - The Seattle Times)
Issac Stephens / Rick
Level E
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