Hyrum Grant Raised from the Dead After the Doctor Declared Him Gone (Early 20th Century)

Heber J. Grant told this account of his brother Hyrum in his own words:

'Hyrum Grant, my brother, had yellow jaundice which turned to black jaundice. He became as black as my coat. He weighed slightly more than seventy pounds, and was in a most terrible condition.'

A doctor was attending him. The doctor watched the vital signs and finally announced that Hyrum was dead: 'His pulse has not been beating now for some four or five minutes. He is gone.'

Hyrum's son and son-in-law stepped forward. They laid their hands upon his head and prayed to God that his spirit might return to his body — that he might live to fulfill a promise that had been made to him, that he should live to preside over the Davis Stake of Zion.

When they finished praying, Hyrum Grant opened his eyes.

He looked up at the people surrounding him and said, 'What is the matter with you folks? You look scared half to death.'

He recovered fully.

He went on to preside over the Davis Stake of Zion, exactly as the promise had said.