Mary A. Freeze's Miraculous Healing after Being Run Over by a Wagon
Published October 19, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Young Woman's Journal Research
While moving to Salt Lake City in October 1852, a young Mary A. Freeze fell while climbing into a wagon and was run over by both wheels. She was severely injured but was healed almost instantly following the administration of the elders, experiencing no further effects from the injury.
In her autobiographical account, Mary Ann Burnham Freeze specifies that the journey across the plains took place in 1852, with the company reaching Salt Lake City on October 8th, 1852.
In Their Own Words
“While climbing into the wagon, I fell and was run over by both wheels and very badly hurt, but through administration of the Elders I was almost instantly healed and felt no bad effects from the injury afterwards. — Mary Ann Burnham Freeze journal, FamilySearch Memories, https://www.familysearch.org/en/memories/memory/7901011/Journal+of+Mary+Ann+Burnham+Freeze”
Sources & References
The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 23 no. 3 (March 1912). L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University digital collections. https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/YWJ/id/16318 (account extracted verbatim from the collection's page-level OCR; research confidence: high) Additional sources (periodical research): Journal of Mary Ann Burnham Freeze, FamilySearch Memories. https://www.familysearch.org/en/memories/memory/7901011/Journal+of+Mary+Ann+Burnham+Freeze
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