Healing / Medical Reversal & Remission

Lucy Grant Cannon's Healing in Washington, D. C.

Published October 24, 2026 at 6:08 AM

1880s
Washington, D. C.

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Young Woman's Journal Research

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Lucy Grant Cannon, the daughter of President Heber J. Grant, was very frail in childhood and her life was despaired of multiple times, but she was restored to health through the power of faith and the blessing of the Lord. The issue notes this is a well-known miracle previously recorded in Vol. 34 of the Young Woman's Journal.

While living in Washington, D.C. as a child, Lucy and her sister Rachel were stricken with diphtheria. A spiritualist woman, with whom they were boarding, told her husband that her medium had predicted the younger child (Lucy) would die and be taken on a long journey by train to a mountain valley in Salt Lake, where she would be buried. However, George Q. Cannon administered to Lucy, rebuking the decree of the adversary, and she survived. This story was later confirmed when the landlord shared his wife's specific dream with Heber J. Grant.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in Mary Connelly Kimball, 'Lucy Grant Cannon', Young Woman's Journal, September 1923, pp. 474–477.):

When the children were taken ill she had gone to her medium who told her that she could see two little girls sick at her home. She said that the older one would get better but the younger one would die. She said that she could see her body put into a coffin, carried to the train and then carried for days through large cities and over great prairies, up into the tops of the mountains and stop in a valley in the mountains where the coffin was removed and carried up to the side hill and buried. The landlord, who was not a believer in spiritualism, was very much worried by this prediction and told Brother Grant about it. Brother Grant went into the room where the children were lying, and he felt that the power of the adversary was there. He administered to the little girls and rebuked the disease and the power of the adversary, and promised them that they should recover. He told the landlord that the prediction of the medium would not be fulfilled. The children began to improve from that hour and were soon restored to health. Years later, when Brother Grant was in Washington, he met the landlord again, who told him that he had never forgotten that incident, and that it had been a testimony to him of the power of the Priesthood.

In Their Own Words

“When the children were taken ill she had gone to her medium who told her that she could see two little girls sick at her home. She said that the older one would get better but the younger one would die. She said that she could see her body put into a coffin, carried to the train and then carried for days through large cities and over great prairies, up into the tops of the mountains and stop in a valley in the mountains where the coffin was removed and carried up to the side hill and buried. — Mary Connelly Kimball, 'Lucy Grant Cannon', Young Woman's Journal, September 1923, pp. 474–477.”

Sources & References

The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 40 no. 5 (May 1929). L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University digital collections. https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/YWJ/id/22576 (account extracted verbatim from the collection's page-level OCR; research confidence: high) Additional sources (periodical research): Lawrence R. Flake, Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001), 67–73. https://rsc.byu.edu/prophets-apostles-last-dispensation/heber-jeddy-grant Fuller account: Mary Connelly Kimball, 'Lucy Grant Cannon', Young Woman's Journal, September 1923, pp. 474–477. https://archiveviewer.org/viewer/hathitrust/nyp.33433082160015?position=474

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