Hannah Cornaby's miraculous spiritual peace and conversion
Published October 29, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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Millennial Star Research
Hannah Cornaby details her religious journey, beginning with her dissatisfaction with the Established Church and her subsequent conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She recounts a period of severe illness where she received specific promises of future blessings, including the ability to perform proxy ordinances for her deceased ancestors, which she later realized when visiting the Endowment House in Salt Lake City in 1876. She expresses deep gratitude for the Gospel and identifies as a witness to the Restoration.
In Their Own Words
“In the spring of 1851, I was taken very ill, and for many weeks was confined to my bed. During this time, I was often visited by the Elders, who administered to me, and I was promised that I should recover, and that I should live to go to Zion, and perform work for my dead. This promise was a great comfort to me, and I felt that I should yet see the day when I could enter the house of the Lord and be baptized for my kindred. In the fall of this year (1876) I went to Salt Lake City, not as in '57, when the journey occupied four days, but this time by train, in four hours. We had the privilege of entering the Endowment House to work for our dead, and I was baptized and sealed for many of them; which was one of the blessings promised me during my sickness.”
— Hannah Last Cornaby, Autobiography and Poems
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), Vol. 91, No. 39 (1929). https://archive.org/details/millennialstar9139eng (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Image: ECR(1851) p50 - Yarmouth Canal.jpg — via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ECR(1851)_p50_-_Yarmouth_Canal.jpg Full first-person account: Hannah Last Cornaby, Autobiography and Poems (Salt Lake City: J.C. Graham & Co., 1881), 45–46. https://archive.org/details/autobiographypoe00corn/page/45/mode/2up
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