Zaidee Walker Miles — Healing from Scarlet Fever

In June 1876, while living in the pioneer settlement of St. George, Utah, four-year-old Zaidee Walker contracted a severe case of scarlet fever, a disease that was frequently fatal in the frontier West. Her father, the prominent pioneer diarist and poet Charles Lowell Walker, recorded the gravity of her condition as she suffered from the high fever and throat infection characteristic of the illness. According to the family history submitted to the DUP, her father and other Priesthood holders administered to her through the laying on of hands, offering fervent prayers for her recovery. Following this administration, Zaidee experienced a rapid and remarkable reversal of the disease, which the family documented as a clear instance of divine healing and a testimony of the power of the Priesthood in the early Dixie mission.