As told by Jessica Jewett for Sissy Hand.

Physical comparison of Sissy Hand and Sarah Chamberlain Farrington.

The case of Sissy Hand being reincarnated from Sarah Brastow Chamberlain Farrington is a relatively new one but nonetheless interesting in the parallels drawn from similar names, dates, personality, habits, appearance and ambitions.

Sarah Brastow Chamberlain Farrington was born on November 2, 1836, the third child of five born to Sarah and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Jr. She was born with blonde hair and blue eyes, but as she got older, her hair became darker much like her four brothers. Of all of her brothers, she looked the most like Joshua Lawrence, who would later become a Civil War general and Governor of Maine. From her earliest childhood, she acquired the nicknames of Sadie and Sae, and she was considered to be a beauty, although she did not think very much of herself in that manner. She constantly thought of everyone else before her own needs, often caring for invalid members of the family day in and day out for weeks or months until they were able to care for themselves again.

Like most of the Chamberlain family, she was known to have a stubborn, independent streak that made her want to do things that her brothers were doing even though she was, in nineteenth century terms, just a woman. That independence prompted her to take a job as a teacher at the Laurel Bank Seminary in New York in 1859. She loved her students and taught every subject, although Lawrence thought she was overworked and underpaid. Despite the love of teaching, the lack of pay brought her back home in 1860, where she began caring for her other brother, Horace, during his bout with tuberculosis, as well as caring for his wife, Mary Wheeler, who was apparently suffering from chronic fatigue among other illnesses. She cared for her brother until his death in 1861. During the Civil War, she held down the homefront while two of her brothers went off to war and one joined the US Christian Commission. Frank and tender correspondence between Sae and her brothers during the war illustrates a woman so well thought of by her family that she was not petted and passed over just for being female.

She abhorred the idea of marriage, so she told Lawrence, and never had a desire to enter into such a union. Her heart was turned after the Civil War, however, and after much soul-searching, she fell in love with and married Charles Oliver Farrington, who was a friend of her oldest brother, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. They were married on July 14 and they had five children, although only two of them survived their childhoods and neither of the children ever married. The family spent their entire lives living in the same house in Brewer, Maine. Sae outlived all of her beloved brothers and died in 1921 at the age of 84.

Physical comparison of Sissy Hand and Sarah Chamberlain Farrington.

In 1976, which was 140 years after her last birth, she was born again in the South this time. It appears to be rather common that people who went through the Civil War period often reincarnate into the opposite circumstances, so it's not unusual to see a northern born woman in the 19th century returned to life in the South in order to learn about the people her family fought during the war.

Many of the personality traits present in Sarah Chamberlain Farrington have carried over into her present life, such as the pressing need to be a caregiver and always looked after family members and close friends before her own needs. This appears to be compulsive and can often be detrimental to her own health, which may be the lesson for this life, learning to care for her own needs a little bit more. Just as Sae was a teacher in her lifetime, she has also become a teacher in this lifetime, in addition to earning a nursing degree and acting upon those impulses and desires from the previous life. "I have a little girl in my class and her name is Sadie, and I think a lot to myself that is such a pretty name," she said, prior to being aware that her nickname within her family used to be Sadie as well. Very often it is seen that names can have a similar tone or sound from lifetime to lifetime and it should be noted that the nicknames of Sadie and Sissy are very similar (Sissy is not her legal name and neither was Sadie). She was also born with blonde hair and blue eyes, and her hair became progressively darker as she got older, just the same as in her previous life.

There also appears to be several parallels of dates across multiple lifetimes with this case. Sissy recognized August 29 as the birth date of her ex-fiancé and August 29 was also the date in which Sae's brothers entered enemy territory during the Civil War. Additionally, Charles and Sae were married on July 14, which was Bastille Day. This is important and noteworthy because prior to living her life as Sissy Hand and Sarah Chamberlain Farrington, she was part of the same soul group that passed through France during the Revolution in the late eighteenth century. The parallels between those two lines continues when one takes note that Sarah Chamberlain Farrington was born on November 2, which was also the birthdate of Queen Marie Antoinette, who she met and adulated her French Revolution lifetime.

The most selfless and loving act of caring for a loved one until the moment of their death followed Sissy into this present lifetime from Sae. She nursed more than one brother, her sister-in-law, her children, and so on, through many life-threatening illnesses that often resulted in death. Sissy immediately jump to the aid of her mother when she fell ill and cared for her until her own death. She has cared for other family members in similar circumstances as well. This is a trait that is difficult to maintain from lifetime to lifetime because it is so taxing on the soul. It can often result in permanent emotional damage that is not easily undone even after death and rebirth. It is entirely possible that Sissy continues to care for people in their worst circumstances because she could not save many of her family members in her nineteenth century lifetime. There are many lessons still and needing to be learned and obstacles to overcome for this particular soul but she is an example of selflessness, intelligence, independence and unconditional love.

April 22, 2011 - UPDATE

Continuing research into this case has revealed the parallel anniversary date of May 4. In Sissy's present lifetime, May 4 was the date in which her beloved mother passed away. In Sarah Chamberlain Farrington's lifetime, May 4 was the birthdate of her husband, Charles Oliver Farrington. A connection to the lifetime before that reveals that the current birthdate of who was Comtesse Jeanne du Barry is also May 4. Sissy and many in her soul group have crossed paths with the former Comtesse in mulitiple lifetimes.