There are many stories of kin
seeing their kindred at their hour of death,
especially among the fishing folk of Cornwall.
In about 1860 a
seaman who lived in the parish of Feock sailed out of
Falmouth in a vessel bound for Spanish ports. One
week after his departure, his wife began to feel
unusually agitated about her husband, and at length,
on going upstairs, she heard a sound as if a sudden
gale had spring up, and the sound of rushing waters.
Looking out of her
window into the garden she could behold her husband
being carried off the ship by a great wave; another
wave followed and engulfed him, and she saw him no
more.
In due course, she
received a letter from the captain of the vessel
informing her that her husband had been washed
overboard during a gale and had been drawned. The
letter stated the day and the hour of the disaster,
which corresponded exactly to the time she saw the
apparition.
