A lady's providential rescue from a well in Ogden
Published October 6, 2026 at 6:14 AM
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Millennial Star Research
A lady in Ogden, Utah, stepped on a rotten wooden curb at her well, which broke, causing her to fall headfirst into the water. Her husband, who was standing in the doorway, witnessed the disappearance and successfully climbed down to rescue her before she succumbed to the drowning danger.
Fuller account of this event (the complete account as preserved in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 51, No. 39, 30 September 1889):
A lady in Ogden, Utah, stepped on a rotten wooden curb at her well, which broke, causing her to fall headfirst into the water. Her husband, who was standing in the doorway, witnessed the disappearance and successfully climbed down to rescue her before she succumbed to the drowning danger.
In Their Own Words
“She went to the well to get some water, and inadvertently stepped on a piece of wooden curb too near the edge. The rotten stick broke just as the lady was stooping to get the water, and she was precipitated into the well head foremost. By a providential circumstance her husband was standing in the doorway and saw the sudden disappearance of his wife. He hurried to the well and climbed down, and after some exertion succeeded in getting the lady out of the water. She then clung to the sides of the well till further assistance was secured, and she was above ground once more. It was a most fortunate rescue, for the lady’s position, her head being downward, must have proved fatal. — Millennial Star 51:39”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 30 September 1889 (Vol. 51, No. 39). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1889-09-30_51_39 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Complete account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 51, No. 39, 30 September 1889 https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1889-09-30_51_39
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