Pearl Pollard Curran is best known for her co-authorship with Patience Worth.  Together, beginning in the early 1900's, they wrote several best selling novels, short stories, & hundreds of poems.  However it is the unusual way that they partnered that made them famous.  Patience Worth was a 17th century spirit that dictated to Pearl Curran by channeling through a Ouija board.  The contact began in 1913 when the spirit stated, "Many moons ago I lived. Again I come. Patience Worth my name.  If thou shalt live, so shall I..........". When asked when she lived, the dates 1649 - 94 were given and that her home was "Across the sea."  Patience indicated that she was from England,  had lived in rural Dorsetshire with her father John and mother Anne.   Patience Worth was later to indicate that after coming to America she was eventually killed by the Indians.