Helen Peters Nosworthy
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Helen Augusta Peters Nosworthy (September 19, 1851 – November 8, 1940) was an American spiritualist and medium. She is considered the "mother" of modern Ouija, having named and helped patent the board in 1890.[1]
Helen Peters was born in 1851[2] in Baltimore, Maryland. Her affluent family was part of Southern society had many ties to the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Helen and her siblings would often take buttons from dead soldiers after battles.[3]