The 1850s

109 miracle accounts from this decade

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George Q. Cannon — Vision of the Savior on Maui(1851)
Mosiah Hancock's Vision of the Pre-Earth Life — He Sees God, the Savior, and the War in Heaven(1855)
Jacob Hamblin: 'The Peacemaker' — He Healed the Sick, Made Peace Among Nations, and Was Never Harmed by Those He Sought to Befriend(1854)
The Biscuit Miracle — Ann Rowley's Two Sea Biscuits Feed Eight Starving Children(1856)
Ephraim Hanks: The Voice in the Night That Sent Him Alone Through a Blizzard to Save the Martin Handcart Company(1856)
David Patten Kimball: He Waded the Icy Sweetwater to Carry Pioneers Across — Then Saw His Dead Father in a Vision(1856)
Ephraim Hanks: Painless Amputations, Frozen Limbs Healed, and Buffalo That Appeared Instantly in Answer to Prayer(1856)
Voice of the Lord Heard by Solomon Chamberlain in the California Mountains(1850)
George Q. Cannon — Gift of Tongues in Hawaii (1851)(1851)
George Q. Cannon — Audible Divine Communication in a Hawaiian Garden(1851)
Edward Martin, Brigham Young, rescue party members, handcart pioneersRescue of the Martin Handcart Company(1856)
The Rescue of the Martin Handcart Company: Brigham Young Sends Everything Within One Hour(1856)
Ann Jewell Rowley Fed Her Ten Children from Two Hard Sea Rolls(1856)
The Sweetwater River Rescue — Three Men Carry Hundreds of Handcart Pioneers Across a Frozen River(1856)
George Wilson Grant: He Carried Pioneers Across the Sweetwater at 17 — And His Heart Broke With Them in Later Life(1856)
C. Allen Huntington: One of the Three Men of the Sweetwater Rescue — Brigham Young's Public Promise of Celestial Glory(1856)
Jedediah M. Grant's Two-Night Vision of the Spirit World on His Deathbed (1856)(1856)
William and Grandma Atkin Miraculously Cross Swollen Green River Without Wetting Their Cart(1859)
Mons and Elna Larson Miraculously Provided with Bread and Fish When Provisions Ran Out(1859)
Orson Hyde Prophesies Rain During Drought and It Comes Before the Meeting Ends(1850s)
Francis Webster: 'The Angels of God Were There' — His Handcart Pushed Him When No One Was Behind It(1856)
The Three Young Men Who Carried Hundreds Across the Freezing Sweetwater River(1856)
Brigham Young's Call to Rescue the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies (October 1856)(1856)
Joseph Angell Young: Just Three Days Home From a 4-Year Mission, He Rode 800 Miles to Save the Handcart Pioneers(1856)
Benjamin Brown's Provisions Supplied as Foretold During Salt Lake Valley Settlement(1847)
Oliver Cowdery's Dying Testimony — 'He Died the Happiest Man I Ever Saw'(1850)
Erastus Snow — Spiritual Gift of Language in Denmark(1850)
David Candland — Miraculous Recovery from Sickness(1850)
John Horner Gives $6,000 to Stranded Missionaries — Enabling the Gospel to Reach Asia, Australia and the Pacific(1853)
William Hyde's Mission Dream: Bearing Testimony by the Voice of Angels While Sailing to Hawaii (1853)(1853)
George Washington Bean's Narrow Escape with His Life — Divine Deliverance During Indian Relations(1855)
Patience Loader: A Stranger Appeared in the Snow and Said 'Travel On — There Is Help For You'(1856)
George Cunningham's Prophetic Dream: Rescuers in Blue Coats Appear Before They Arrive(1856)
Mary Hurren: Her Father Refused to Amputate Her Frozen Legs — She Walked Again in Three Years(1856)
A Rescuer Dreamed of His Future Wife — and Recognized Her in the Handcart Camp(1856)
Rescue of the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies (October–November 1856)(1856)
Patience Loader: She Carried Her Mother Across the Freezing Sweetwater River — A Daughter's Impossible Act of Love(1856)
Franklin D. Richards: The Apostle Who Endorsed the Late Departure and Then Raced to Bring Help(1856)
William Henry Kimball: Son of an Apostle, He Led 60 Wagon Loads of Willie Company Survivors to Safety(1856)
Reddick Newton Allred: He Held the Mountain Pass Open in a Blizzard — Saving Hundreds Who Didn't Know He Was There(1856)
Wilford Woodruff Journal 2: Poisoned from a Dead Cow — Brigham Young Rebuked the Disease and He Was Made Whole (1856)(1856)
George Washington Bean's Life Saved by Chief Peteetneet — Divine Protection in the Indian Mission(1856)
Samuel Taylor Orton Hears Divine Voice and Witnesses Halo of Light Around Brigham Young(1856)
Reddick Newton Allred: A Handcart Rescuer of 1856 (1822–1905)(1856)
Captain Edward Bunker's Third Handcart Company — Brought Safely Through Before the Deadly Winter (1856)(1856)
Isaac Leany Receives Second Prophetic Dream of Johnston's Army as Serpent(1857)
Protected from Native Americans While Separated on the Prairie(1859)
Brother Scroggins Healed of Violent Illness Through Faith and Obedience(1859)
David Candland — Spiritual Manifestation at the 1859 Festival(1859)
Angus M. Cannon — Missionary Manifestation in the Eastern States(1850s)
Francis Webster: 'We Knew We Were Engaged in God's Work' — The Handcart Pioneer Who Never Regretted the Journey(1856)
Marsena Cannon — Divine Protection during the 1850 Trek(1850)
William Hyde Receives a Patriarchal Blessing Promising Power Over the Elements and Protection from Enemies(1852)
Successful Missionary Work in the Sandwich Islands(1852)
Missionary Success in Switzerland and Pioneer Endurance(1855)
Peter McBride: His Father Made 25 Crossings of an Icy River, Then Died — and Peter Asked for His Fish Hooks(1856)
Elizabeth Horrocks Jackson: 'My Husband Was Dead. I Will Yet Reach Zion'(1856)
John Oborn: 'Like a Thunderbolt Out of the Clear Sky, God Answered Our Prayers'(1856)
Levi Savage Jr.: 'I Will Die with You' — The Prophet Who Warned, Then Served Unto Death's Edge(1856)
James G. Willie: From English Convert to Handcart Captain — Led His Company Through Death and Into Zion(1856)
Daniel Webster Jones: He Volunteered to Winter at Devil's Gate to Guard the Handcart Survivors' Possessions — And Almost Starved(1856)
Abel Weaver Garr: The Fastest Rider in the Rescue — He Galloped Into Camp and the Martin Company Wept(1856)
Cyrus Wheelock: Just Off a Mission to England, He Turned Around and Rode Back Into Wyoming to Find the Saints He'd Sent West(1856)
Patience Loader Rozsa Archer: Martin Handcart Survivor Who Pulled Her Father's Share Through the Snow (1856)(1856)
Isabella Jan Bradshaw Astle: A Child of the Handcart Pioneers Featured in 'Ephraim's Rescue' (1856)(1856)
Langley Allgood Bailey: A Survivor of the Martin Handcart Company of 1856(1856)
Thomas B. Marsh: The First President of the Quorum of the Twelve Who Left and Then Came Back — 'I Cannot Live Without a Reconciliation'(1857)
John Horner Recovers from Lockjaw and Near Death After Losing His Entire Fortune(1850s)
James Madison Barlow: A Silversmith Who Stopped in Zion and Stayed (1812–1893)(1850)
Henry Beal: A Mormon Pioneer Who Brought His Family to Utah Territory(1850)
Isaac Beck: A Utah Mormon Pioneer(1850)
Henry B. Beckstead: A South Jordan Pioneer and Bishopric Member (1827–?)(1850)
Rufus Chester Allen: Among the First Latter-day Saint Missionaries to South America (Chile, 1851)(1851)
Jean Rio Baker: An English Widow Who Gathered to Zion with Seven Children (1851)(1851)
Eli Bell: A Utah Pioneer of the 1851 Overland Company(1851)
William Bell, Jr.: A Pioneer Craftsman Who Built the Furniture of Zion(1851)
Mons Andersen: Norwegian Convert and Missionary to His Own Family (1829–?)(1852)
Domenico Ballo: An Italian Convert and Musician of Early Utah (c. 1850s)(1852)
Louis A. Bertrand: A French Convert Who Translated the Book of Mormon into His Tongue (1850s-1860s)(1852)
Biggs, Thomas C.: Pioneer of the Plains (1850s)(1852)
Bigler, Jacob G.: Patriarch of Nephi (1850s)(1852)
Biddlecome, Mary Davis Reid: Faithful Pioneer Mother (1850s)(1852)
Pioneer Survival and a Lifetime of Service(1852)
William Ajax: Welsh Convert, Ten-Year Missionary, and the 'Big Store in the Wilderness' (1832–1899)(1853)
Marinda Allen Bateman: A Pioneer Woman's Faithful Life in Plural Marriage (1838–1919)(1853)
Bishop Millen Atwood: A Faithful Pastor of the Salt Lake Thirteenth Ward(1854)
James Bertoch: A Waldensian Convert Who Gathered to Utah and Returned to Preach (1854-1893)(1854)
Jean Bertoch: A Waldensian Saint of the San Germano Branch (1850s)(1854)
Conversion and Pioneer Migration from Scotland(1855)
Joseph Beecroft: 'Old Brother' from London Who Led the Oxen Camps (c. 1855)(1855)
The George Benson Family: A Faithful Pioneer Household of the Benson Line(1855)
Twiss Bermingham: An Irish Convert's Diary of Sea and Plain (1855-1856)(1855)
Anthony W. Bessey: A Manti Pioneer Who Built in Stone (1850s)(1855)
John Chislett: The Skeptic Who Pulled His Cart to the End and Left the Most Detailed Account of the Willie Company(1856)
John Linford: He Died Pulling His Cart at the Sixth Crossing of the Sweetwater — His Name on a Monument(1856)
Lorenzo Argyle: Last Surviving Member of the First Pioneer Handcart Company (1856–1940)(1856)
Margaret McNeil Ballard: A Pioneer Woman's Recorded Sacrifice and Faithful Obedience(1856)
William Bell Barton: A Latter-day Saint Pioneer and Local Leader (1836–1923)(1857)
Hans Besenstiel: A Convert Who Gathered with the Saints (mid-1800s)(1857)
Richard Thomas Ackley: A Mormon Family's Conversion and an 1858 Overland Journal(1858)
Dersten Ericksen Benson: A Convert Who Crossed the Sea to Zion (Saints by Sea, mid-1800s)(1858)
The Niels Bertelsen Family: A Scandinavian Convert Household (mid-1800s)(1858)
George Rowley Blinded Then Miraculously Enabled to Serve Despite Darkness(1859)
Martha Ann Roberts Arbon: The Only Convert in Her Welsh Family and an Early Utah Pioneer (1843–1911)(1859)
Jens P. Benson: A Bornholm Convert Who Gathered to Cache Valley (1850s-1860s)(1859)
Richard Heber Benson: A Faithful Son of the Benson Line(1860)
Sarah Dunkley Benson: A Faithful Wife and Mother of the Benson Line(1860)
Christopher Jones Arthur: Welsh Convert and Pioneer Diarist (1832–1918)(1850s)
Thomas Ashment Sr.: English Convert and Pioneer Diarist of Richmond, Utah (1827–1900)(1850s)
Miracles of the Restoration
A collection of faith-affirming accounts from the Restoration era to the present day.