Mary Alice Cannon Lambert's Survival after Being Run Over by a Wagon

While the family was traveling near Soap Creek in 1846, Mary Alice Cannon Lambert slipped and fell. A heavily loaded wagon weighing over 4,000 pounds ran over her. Though the group initially thought she was dead, her husband and other elders administered to her through the priesthood, and she recovered.

In his own history, Charles Lambert describes the aftermath of the accident, noting that Mary Alice explicitly testified that her spirit had left her body during the ordeal. He records her assessment that the recovery was, to all involved, a miracle.