Eleanor Adams's Vision of Her Deceased Siblings in Heaven

In 1865, after the death of two children (John H. and Minerva) from diphtheria in St. George, Utah, the mother, Emma, was distraught. Following a blessing from Apostle Erastus Snow promising a witness of the children's welfare, the mother's 13-year-old daughter, Eleanor, had a vision. While sent to retrieve a night dress, Eleanor saw a lady in white apparel, with long dark hair, holding a baby girl in each arm and a little boy clinging to her skirt. Eleanor identified the children as her deceased siblings. The vision was later confirmed to be accurate to the family's situation, and the mother received a comforting dream shortly thereafter verifying that her children were in the care of a deceased relative named Ellen Emma.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 62, No. 12 (22 March 1900), pp. 186-187):

In the year 1865, in the town of St. George, Utah, two of the children of John H. and Emma Adams, namely John H. and Minerva, were taken from their parents by the hand of death, having succumbed to that dread disease, diphtheria. The mother was almost inconsolable in her grief, and her heart was bowed down with sorrow. Apostle Erastus Snow, who was then presiding in that part of the Lord's vineyard, visited the bereaved family, and in the course of his ministrations, he gave the mother a blessing, in which he promised her that she should receive a witness that her children were well and happy in the spirit world. A few days after this, the mother was still mourning, and her daughter, Eleanor, a girl of thirteen years, was sent to an adjoining room to get a night dress. No sooner was the door pushed open than the girl, in a transfixed condition, beheld one of the most beautiful sights that the eyes of mortals ever witnessed. A lady dressed in white apparel, with long, dark, flowing hair hanging about her shoulders and with a most pleasant, happy countenance, smiled upon her. In each arm she held a baby girl and clinging to her skirt was a little boy. Fear had fled from the mind of Eleanor, and she looked until her vision closed. She identified two of the children, having nursed and cared for one, the little boy, about two years, and the baby girl on the left arm for a few months. But the age and face of the other girl she could not comprehend. She viewed this in an effort to discover who it was while the manifestation pleasantly passed away. She returned to her mother in a very excited condition, saying, “Oh, Mother! I know you will not believe me—I cannot now tell you what I have seen!” After she had become calm, she related the vision to her mother, who was greatly comforted, for she felt that the Lord had fulfilled the promise made by His servant. A short time after this, the mother had a dream, in which she saw her children, and they were in the care of a relative of hers, named Ellen Emma, who had died some years before. The mother was satisfied that her children were in good hands, and her grief was turned into joy.