John R. Murdock's preservation from drowning through his wife's dream

In 1852, John R. Murdock was invited by four men to go fishing on Utah Lake. His wife, having dreamed that John went with four men and was drowned, begged him not to go. Murdock stayed home. During the night, the boat carrying his four friends encountered a storm and capsized, and the men narrowly survived after a struggle in the water.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in A biographical sketch of John Riggs Murdock by Joseph Marion Tanner (1909), pages 105-106):

In the spring of 1852, John R. Murdock, with four other men, Canute Peterson, William Fotheringham, and two others whose names are not now recalled, arranged to go fishing on Utah Lake. The morning of the day they were to start, John's wife, Almira, was very much distressed. She had had a dream the night before, in which she saw John and his four companions out on the lake in a boat; a storm arose, the boat was capsized, and all were drowned. She begged her husband not to go. John, while not doubting her word, did not in the least share her feelings, but out of tenderness to her evident distress, yielded to her entreaties and remained behind. His four friends, however, went on the trip. During the night a severe storm arose on the lake, the boat was capsized, and the men were thrown into the water. They struggled for their lives for some time, and finally, with great difficulty, managed to reach the shore, narrowly escaping death. When they returned and told of their experience, they were surprised to learn that John had been warned of the danger and had stayed home because of his wife's dream.