A Deaf, Lame Woman of Eighty Healed of Both After Her Baptism and Anointing by Thomas Squires at Newbury (1848)

A woman about eighty years old was baptized by Thomas Squires in May 1848. She was very deaf and had been for some years, and was very feeble with two bad legs; she had to be led to the water for baptism but walked back herself. Later, she requested that Thomas Squires anoint her ears with oil and lay hands upon her, after which her hearing was restored and her legs were completely healed.

Fuller account of this event (in the witness’s own words):

Again, in the month of May, 1848, I baptized an old woman of about eighty years of age. She was very deaf, and had been so for some years; and was very feeble, having two bad legs. She was led to the water to be baptized, but walked back herself. Calling upon her some time after her baptism, she desired me to anoint her ears with oil and lay hands upon her, and strange to tell, her hearing has been restored, and both her legs are well, and have not a wound upon them, (to God be all the praise,) and she walks about quite well.