Margaret McIlvane's Visionary Recognition of the Gospel

Margaret McIlvane, an Irish woman, prayed for the true church after hearing a prediction in 1850 that the true church would eventually arise. In 1860, she had a dream of the Book of Mormon. In 1880, she dreamed of a young man's face. In 1885, Elder Edward Clyde visited her, whom she recognized as the man from her dream, and she recognized the Book of Mormon as the book she had seen in her vision 25 years earlier.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 66, No. 35, September 1, 1904, page 557):

In the year 1850, a good old gentleman, a preacher, told the people in Edendale, Kells, that the true Church of Christ was not on the earth, but that it would eventually arise. This statement made a deep impression on the mind of Sister Margaret McIlvane, and she began to pray to the Lord to show her the true Church. In 1860, while in this state of mind, she had a dream in which she says she saw the Book of Mormon. In 1880 she had a dream, in which she saw very distinctly the face of a young man, which made such an impression upon her that she never forgot it. Five years later Elder Edward Clyde came to her humble abode with the Gospel which the old gentleman had promised would come, and which she had been so earnestly praying to the Lord for. She at once recognised the face she had seen in her dream five years previous. In his message she at once recognized the Gospel she had been studying for years, and when the Book of Mormon was presented to her, she immediately recognized the writing she had seen in her dream twenty-five years previous. She and her husband, Robert McIlvane, and her sister, Grace Scroggie, were baptized by Elder Edward Clyde.