Showing posts with label Stockdale Mary Ann. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stockdale Mary Ann. Show all posts
Friday, March 11, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Mary Ann Stockdale by Pearl Robbins Olsen
( By Granddaughter Pearl Robbins Olsen, copied 24 November 1955 by Barbara Darrington, a great great grand-daughter, from the original obtained from Francis Marion Egbert of Twin Falls, Idaho. Also copied by Alberta Blamires Streeper)
Mary Ann Stockdale was born 6 March 1805 at Penryn, Cornwall, England, daughter of William and Avis Francis Stockdale. Very little is known of her early life nor her family, except that she was one of nine children and two children of her mother. Two brothers and a sister are the only ones listed in her record. No records were kept in those early days, and it is hard to obtain records, only from cemeteries and early day churches.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Mary Ann Stockdale Carter is healed by the priesthood
After the death of her husband she had to work very hard for a living for her family of little children. At one time not knowing how to get bread for her children she had her beautiful hair cut off and sold so she could provide for them.
One day as she was washing clothes, (she took in washing for a living,) she needed a place to put them. She quickly picked up a stocking she had been darning and brushed the table with it; not knowing a large darning needle with a string of yam was hidden in the stocking. It ran through the fleshy part of her hand: she couldn't pull the needle out with her fingers, so taking one end of the needle between her teeth and placing her other hand on her wrist she pushed with all her might with her free hand and pulled with her teeth, the needle and yam went through her hand. Then regardless of the agony and pain she suffered she finished the washing. Blood poisoning set in causing her hand to swell twice it's normal size and turn dark. The doctor said her hand must be amputated to save her life. In great faith she was administered to by the Mormon Elders, they rebuked the disease that had set in, the darkness and swelling left immediately and her hand was restored to it's normal health.
She continued on caring for her children rejoicing in the blessings of the Lord to her.
One day as she was washing clothes, (she took in washing for a living,) she needed a place to put them. She quickly picked up a stocking she had been darning and brushed the table with it; not knowing a large darning needle with a string of yam was hidden in the stocking. It ran through the fleshy part of her hand: she couldn't pull the needle out with her fingers, so taking one end of the needle between her teeth and placing her other hand on her wrist she pushed with all her might with her free hand and pulled with her teeth, the needle and yam went through her hand. Then regardless of the agony and pain she suffered she finished the washing. Blood poisoning set in causing her hand to swell twice it's normal size and turn dark. The doctor said her hand must be amputated to save her life. In great faith she was administered to by the Mormon Elders, they rebuked the disease that had set in, the darkness and swelling left immediately and her hand was restored to it's normal health.
She continued on caring for her children rejoicing in the blessings of the Lord to her.
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