Healing / Medical Reversal & Remission

James Hart's Two Cholera-Stricken Toddlers Rise Immediately as Richard Boots Anoints and Rebukes the Disease — the Elder Runs to Her Grandmother Announcing She Is Well at Leigh (1849)

Published October 4, 2026 at 6:37 AM

1840s · 1849
Leigh

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Millennial Star Research

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James Hart's two children, aged three and fourteen months, suffered from severe cholera including vomiting and cramps. Richard Boots anointed them and rebuked the disease, and the elder child immediately rose and ran to her grandmother to announce she was well.

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

On Tuesday, the 11th inst., brother James Hart came for me to go and administer to his two children who were very sick. I went with him, and found them suffering from sickness, vomiting, cramp, and all the usual symptoms of cholera. The eldest three years old, and the youngest fourteen months; they were screeching in agony. I anointed them and rebuked the disease in the name of the Lord, when the eldest got up, and before we were aware of what she was about, ran to her grandmother, without shoes or stockings, to tell her that she was well.

In Their Own Words

“On Tuesday, the 11th inst., brother James Hart came for me to go and administer to his two children who were very sick. I went with him, and found them suffering from sickness, vomiting, cramp, and all the usual symptoms of cholera. The eldest three years old, and the youngest fourteen months; they were screeching in agony. I anointed them and rebuked the disease in the name of the Lord, when the eldest got up, and before we were aware of what she was about, ran to her grandmother, without shoes or stockings, to tell her that she was well. — Millennial Star 11:21”

Sources & References

The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 1 November 1849 (Vol. 11, No. 21). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1849-11-01_11_21 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Fuller account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 11, No. 21 (1 November 1849), p. 334 https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1849-11-01_11_21

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