Brother Goff's dream of safety from Indian attack
Published October 4, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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While working at a sawmill a few miles from Scipio, Utah, Brother Goff dreamed that he must leave or he would be scalped. He persuaded his partner to leave with him, and they returned to Deseret City. On the day they left, Indians attacked the mill area; accounts report that they stole cattle and killed a man and a boy nearby, and that the victims were killed and stripped. Goff and his partner were preserved because they heeded the dream.
In Their Own Words
“There is a saw-mill a few miles from Scipio, or Round Valley, Millard county, Utah. Two men were working at that mill by themselves. One of them—brother Goff—dreamed one night that he must go away from there, or he would be scalped. The dream made a deep impression upon him. In the morning, being thus warned, he persuaded the brother who was working with him to leave there too. They both started for Deseret City—their place of residence—upwards of forty miles distant. They took a road which led directly to their home, and did not call at Scipio. The very day he left the mill, a band of wicked Indians came down the kanyon, and stole a number of horses and cattle belonging to the people of Scipio. Besides stealing the cattle and horses, they killed and stripped a man and a boy whom they met. When the men of Scipio followed the trail of the cattle, they found the bodies of the two whom the Indians had murdered. Not finding the two men at the mill, they supposed they were also killed by the Indians. This caused the report to spread that three men and a boy were missing. But brother Goff’s dream had saved himself and companion. They knew no more about the Indians coming than the people of Scipio did. — Millennial Star 28:32”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 11 August 1866 (Vol. 28, No. 32). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1866-08-11_28_32 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 11 August 1866 (Vol. 28, No. 32). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1866-08-11_28_32 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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