Power of Prayer

Luella Furgerson's Miraculous Recall of Stolen Funds

Published October 16, 2026 at 11:07 PM

1900s · 1901
Salt Lake City

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Young Woman's Journal Research

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After being arrested for embezzlement and unable to remember where she had hidden stolen money, Luella Furgerson knelt with Hyrum Priestley in prayer. During the prayer, she was given a revelation of the location of the notes.

In Their Own Words

“Side by side they knelt down together, and as he poured forth his soul in prayer, imploring forgiveness for this erring child, she tremblingly repeated every word after him. Suddenly she laid her hand on his arm. "Hyrum," she whispered eagerly, "Hyrum—wait—it seems to me I can almost remember—it was—Oh, Hyrum—I put the notes—I know—it was behind one of the old ledgers on the shelf in my office." — The Young Woman's Journal 12:4”

Sources & References

The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 12 no. 4 (April 1901). L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University digital collections. https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/YWJ/id/10245 (account extracted verbatim from the collection's page-level OCR; research confidence: high)

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