William Horne Dame — Prophetic Dream of Deliverance in Beaver Jail

In the mid-1870s, William Horne Dame was arrested and imprisoned in Beaver, Utah, in connection with the legal proceedings following the Mountain Meadows Massacre. During this period of intense personal and legal distress, Dame sought comfort through prayer. Mable McBride Tate's biography records that while in his cell, Dame had a vivid and comforting dream or vision. In the dream, he was visited by a messenger who assured him that he was not guilty of the crimes charged against him and that he would eventually be released and his name would be cleared. This spiritual manifestation provided him with the peace necessary to endure his imprisonment. The prophecy in the dream was fulfilled when the charges against him were eventually dismissed in 1877, and he was allowed to return to his home and his duties as Stake President.

Recording note: This account is recorded in Mable McBride Tate, 'Biography of William Horne Dame,' Daughters of Utah Pioneers History Collection, which is not available in a public online archive. William Horne Dame (1819–1888) presided over the Parowan Stake and was imprisoned at Beaver, Utah, in 1876 amid legal proceedings connected with the Mountain Meadows Massacre; charges against him were dismissed in 1877. No verbatim first-person text of his dream is included here.