In 1985 when Maw was on her deathbed, dying of cancer, I would sit at her bedside with her, as would other family members.

She would talk to her dead children, including my grandmother who passed away in 1974 at the age of 41. She had another dead daughter who died in 1971 before I was born, and she had two infant sons who died around 1920 or so.

She told my mother one day that two nice looking men in suits knocked on her door and she went to open it, they called her "Mother" and told her that they were her sons. My mother just shivered.

I can recall having goosebumps and feeling a thick, heavy feeling in the room when my Maw would talk to these invisible people.

She also talked about angels coming to see her and standing at her bed. Some family members just said it was because of the pain she was in, but if you were in her room when she was talking to these spirits, you wouldn't believe that theory at all.

My grandmother is here dressed in black. She looks much older because she was dying of cancer. She was about 39 but looks about 60. Her name was Virginia, but we called her Jenny-Ma. My great grandmother is shown here too. Her name was Eva. She is in the yellow dress. She was the center of our family. My cousin Reed and I know her presence was there that night....we knew those were her footsteps. Right when they reached the kitchen, the light bulb exploded! I think that was one of the weirdest things that has ever happened to me.