Healing of William Inlow’s sons (noted as an event associated with blood)
Published October 18, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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William Inlow and his two sons, while working on a plantation in Lauren's District, South Carolina, witnessed a shower of flesh and blood fall from the sky. The event occurred around mid-day while the sun was shining. The material, which appeared like pieces of meat, fell over a width of twenty to thirty yards and length of about fifty yards. The son reported hearing the pieces fall and seeing the air darkened by them, describing them as falling like snow.
In Their Own Words
“Last Saturday, when Mr. Win. M. Inlow and his two sons were picking cotton on his plantation (in Lauren's District, near the river Enoree, and about two miles below Musgrove's Mill), the younger son shouted to the other, who was a little distance from him. to listen, because he had heard something fall near him. They thought it was a mistake, and they took little notice of it; but he continued to call, telling them that if they went over there, they would see something that had fallen. They went, and they found that the earth was speckled with what appeared to them like pieces of meal, generally of the size of hen's eggs. These pieces were very wet, and as red with blood, or some other substance thai could color them like thai; and the grass, the cotton, and whatever else that touched them, were colored as if by blood. They had been scattered some feet around, over about twenty or thirty yards in width on the land, and they noticed them for about fifty yards over it, but they did not go further to look at it.— Udgorn Seion (Zion's Trumpet), No. 9 (September 1849) (English translation by Ronald D. Dennis)”
Sources & References
Ronald D. Dennis, trans. and ed., Zion's Trumpet: 1849 Welsh Mormon Periodical (Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University), No. 9 (September 1849). Internet Archive scan: https://archive.org/details/ZionsTrumpet1849WelshMormonPeriodical (account extracted verbatim from the Internet Archive OCR of the published English translation; research confidence: high)
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