Child Run Over by Loaded Wagon Healed Through Priesthood Administration on the Kirtland March

During the great Kirtland Camp migration of 1837 — a company of approximately 515 Saints in some seventy wagons making their way from Kirtland, Ohio to Far West, Missouri — a dramatic healing occurred en route.

Aroet Lucious Hale recorded in his journal: 'Brother Martin H. Peck had a child between 7 and 8 years old run over by a loaded wagon, the wheels passing over both his legs. The child was anointed with oil and administered to. The camp was only detained about one and a half hours.'

The implication is clear: the administration was effective and the child was sufficiently recovered that the entire camp — seventy wagons and over five hundred Saints — was held back only an hour and a half before continuing their journey. A child whose both legs had been crushed under a loaded wagon's wheels would ordinarily have faced death or permanent disability. The brevity of the delay suggests a remarkable recovery.