Answered Prayer for the Suffering Ute Squaws in Manti
Published October 12, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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Millennial Star Research
During the early settlement of Manti in 1849, the Ute war chief Walker held captives, including elderly Ute women, in pens to starve and die. The settlers, unable to stop the cruelty but pained by the sight, cared for them in secret. When the women died, the author attributes the relief of these doomed women to God answering the prayers of the settlers.
In Their Own Words
“With great secrecy, lest it should bring trouble upon the weak settlement, some of the women carried them food and water, but their hearts seemed broken, and they perished miserably, and in a much shorter time than nature would reasonably succumb to privation. All night and all day their chant of death went on, growing weaker and weaker, one voice after another growing still until one morning there was silence, and the settlers knew that the Lord had heard their prayers and had mercy upon these doomed daughters of Laman. — Millennial Star 57:15”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 11 April 1895 (Vol. 57, No. 15). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1895-04-11_57_15 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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