Healing of the child born blind by John Hackwell

Elizabeth Ann Bounsell, who was born blind, was healed by Elder John Hackwell through the administration of oil and prayer in 1849/1850.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 17 no. 3 (March 1906)):

So the mother took another of her daughters, and put her upon his knee, and said, ‘Sir, is that child blind?’ And after he had examined her eyes, he said, ‘She is.’ ‘Well,’ said the mother, ‘She was born blind; and she is now four years old; and I am going to take her to the Elders of our Church, for them to anoint her eyes with oil, and lay their hands upon her; and you can call again, when you have time, and see her with her eyes opened; for I know the Lord will heal her, and she will see.’ Accordingly, the mother brought the child to the Elders, and Elder John Hackwell anointed her eyes, and laid hands upon her only once; and the Lord heard his prayer, so that the child can now see with both of her eyes, as well as any other person.