Cattle Protected from Murrain in Market Drayton
Published October 5, 2026 at 1:11 AM
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In the village of Market Drayton, where inhabitants had historically persecuted the Saints, a cattle plague (murrain) killed the livestock of the villagers. The only cattle owner in the village who did not lose his animals was a Latter-day Saint. The locals perceived this as a divine judgment.
In Their Own Words
“In one village—Market Drayton—the inhabitants of which had persecuted the servants of God very much in times past, seven head of cattle had died during the past few months by the murrain or cattle plague now raging throughout the country. Only one man who owned cattle in that place had escaped such visitation, and he was a Latter-day Saint. — Millennial Star 28:14”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 7 April 1866 (Vol. 28, No. 14). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1866-04-07_28_14 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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