Joseph Hovey's Son Joseph Healed by Anointing After Cholera-Like Attack — Doctors Had No Hope

In the summer of 1846, camped at Mount Taber in Iowa during the exodus from Nauvoo, Joseph Hovey's son Joseph was struck with a violent illness resembling cholera. The situation seemed fatal.

Hovey recorded:

'My son, Joseph, was attacked with a disease like cholera. We did not think he would live from one minute to the next. I gave him medicine but it had no effect. I called in a brother and we anointed him from head to foot and in about an hour he began to vomit. He vomited about a chamber full and then called for a drink of water. Shortly, he was quite bright and then called for something to eat. He was much better in a few days quite unexpected to the neighbors.'

'I believe the anointing was the thing that made the medicine operate. I and my wife did truly rejoice that our son was saved from the grasp of the destroyer. After a few days our son was playing about to the utter astonishment of all the neighbors.'