Catherine Spencer Is Told by a Heavenly Messenger She Will Be Conveyed to a Mansion of Gold (1846)
Published October 4, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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Millennial Star Research
A night or two before her death in March 1846, Catherine C. Spencer, the wife of Orson Spencer, told her husband that a heavenly messenger had appeared to her, informing her that she had suffered enough and had come to convey her to a mansion of gold.
In Their Own Words
“A night or two before she died, she said to her husband, with unwonted animation, “ A heavenly messenger has appeared to me to-night, and told me that I had done and suffered enough, and that he had now come to convey me to a mansion of gold.” — Millennial Star 9:4”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 15 February 1847 (Vol. 9, No. 4). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1847-02-15_9_4 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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