Serepta Heywood — Prophetic Insight Regarding John Morgan

While John Morgan was staying with the family of Joseph L. Heywood in Salt Lake City, he was not yet a member of the Church. He shared a dream he had experienced with Serepta Heywood. Serepta provided an interpretation of the dream, stating her conviction that he would soon join the Church and eventually be called to serve a mission in the Southern States, a prophecy that was subsequently fulfilled.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in Joseph L. Heywood Homesite):

One morning, on coming down to breakfast, he related to Mrs. Heywood an impressive dream he had had during the night in which he dreamed that he was back in North Georgia near the battlefield of Chickamauga where he had fought in the Civil War and he was preaching the gospel to the people of that region. He had not at that time given the Church any consideration. Mrs. Heywood answered: 'Mr. Morgan, I think I can give you some light concerning your dream. It is my conviction that the time is not far distant when you will become a member of our Church and that in due time you will be called to do missionary work in the Southern States.' A year later, John Morgan became a convert to Mormonism and was baptized. Ten years later while traveling as a missionary from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Rome, Georgia, he came to a fork in the road. After an hour’s walk, the road led him to the rim of a beautiful valley in North Georgia. From a passerby, he learned that the name of the place was Heywood Valley, having the same spelling as the family with whom he had stayed in Salt Lake City.