Cyrus Corey's Bullet Extraction
Published October 11, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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Millennial Star Research
Twelve years after accidentally shooting himself in the leg with a revolver, Cyrus Corey of Ogden experienced a sharp pain in his knee. Upon investigation, he discovered a lump and successfully removed the bullet, which had traveled from his hip down to his knee over the intervening years.
Fuller account of this event (the complete account as preserved in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 54, No. 24 (13 June 1892), p. 382):
Cyrus Corey, of Ogden, Utah, recently had a bullet removed from his knee, which he had carried in his leg for twelve years. He accidentally shot himself in the hip that long ago, and the bullet has been working its way down to the knee ever since.
In Their Own Words
“Nearly twelve years ago Cyrus Corey, of Ogden, then ten years of age, accidentally discharged a revolver, the bullet entering his leg just below the hip. Fearful of alarming his parents, he kept the affair from them, and daily, for three months, washed the sore until it healed. On the morning of May 19, he felt a twinge of pain at his knee, and on investigating the causé discovered a hard lump alongside of the kneepan, just under the skin. He took his knife, made an incision, and extracted the bullet, which had in the twelve years worked its way down along the bone and out to the surface.— Millennial Star 54:24”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 13 June 1892 (Vol. 54, No. 24). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1892-06-13_54_24 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Complete account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 54, No. 24 (13 June 1892), p. 382 https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1892-06-13_54_24
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