Victoria Hancock Healed from Near-Fatal Diphtheria Through Priesthood Administration

While the Hancock family was living at Manti, Utah, working on the Manti Temple, Victoria Hancock — daughter of Mosiah Lyman Hancock and his third wife Martha — contracted diphtheria. The disease was often fatal, particularly for children.

Victoria recorded the outcome simply but powerfully:

'I got diphtheria and was almost gone, but revived when father and others administered to me.'

She was 'almost gone' — at the edge of death — and was revived through the laying on of hands.