Sister Smith's daughter describes what her mother did to try to prevent others from facing the fear and uncertainty of disease: "A doctor finally located in Morgan and started a study class. My oldest sister, Delia, was then about fifteen years old and with the three youngest children gone, she could and did take over the care of the family so mother could attend classes two days and one night a week. This Doctor Kohler was a well trained physician who had come to the arid West to regain his health. His school of medicine, as he called it, continued for several years and mother studied very hard; first two days a week and later three. She got the training he could give in obstetrics, physiology, anatomy, general medicine and pharmacy. After Dr. Kohler returned to the East, mother had most of the medical practice of the entire county. She never refused a call no matter how bad the weather or how great the distance. Those were horse and buggy days, and with no road surfacing, travel at times was almost impossible."34 Preserved in family histories of the early settlers are accounts that tell of the Saints reliance on the power of the priesthood. Daniel Heiner relates the following: "At one time in Hamner's [his son] life, he accidently had a Pjactmoner in the Valley. She . .( , . , . , ' ' , died tn July 1939 at the age pitchfork run in his lungs. I was away, and was of ninety-three about twenty minutes reaching him. When I did come in the house, he was sitting in a chair holding the bottom of it with both hands, struggling for his breath. His face was blue, water was dripping from his hair. There was an Ogden doctor in town. He and our Icxal doctor were sent for as soon as possible. When they came they made an examination, then said they would be frank with us and tell us that no power on earth could save the boy's life five hours. His oldest sister stood by. She said, 'He can live,' and went upstairs to pray for him. My two brothers were present. I said to them in the presence of the doctors, You stay with us and we will show the doctors that he can live.' "The doctor had said that there was a bowl of blood at the bottom of his lungs. "When the doctor left I sent over for father and four of us put our hands on him and asked God to save his life. Before we took our hands off of him, he released his hold on the chair (as up to that time he was fighting to get his breath; he could only hiccough) and began to breath natural. We put him to bed. He soon went to sleep and slept all night and got up next morning and went to school. Never had any bad effects from the wound. %<•* 9 mXm Hulda Cordelia Thurston Smith was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Thurston and the wife of Willard G Smith She held a Utah State certificate to practice medicine, and for a number of years was the only licensed