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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Prayers Save Life of Little Frank Williams After Doctors Give Up On Him, Feb. 20, 1920

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Feb. 20, 1920

Prayers Save Life of Child. . . Believed that Supplications of Seven Towns Wrought Miraculous Cure of Little Frank Williams

Prayers from the pulpits of seven towns are believed to have saved the life of Frank Lennox Williams, the little 15 months old son of Mrs. Fannie Lamb Horton-Williams of this city.
Little Frank Lennox Williams was taken ill with membranous croup Wednesday, Jan. 28. Double pneumonia developed and the child was threatened with spinal meningitis. Its fever rose beyond 106 and three physicians said the child could not live.

It was then that the frantic mother made an appeal to the churches in every town in which she had friends, for prayers for the recovery of her child. In the churches of Elizabeth City, Edenton, Plymouth, Washington, Williamston, Asheville and elsewhere solemn prayers were offered up for the recovery of this child. Doctors despairingly shook their heads. And then the child recovered.

The skeptical will say that prayer had nothing to do with it, but those familiar with the case, members of the family and intimate friends, believe that prayer alone saved the child’s life.

The illness of little Frank Lennox Williams was peculiarly tragic because of his history. His father, Frank Lennox Williams, was called to the colors shortly after his marriage to Miss Fannie Lamb Horton of this city early in 1918. He was killed in France about a month before the signing of the armistice and his child was born on the morning of Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, just when the whistles and bells were proclaiming the glad tidings.

Mrs. Williams is a sister of Mrs. J.C.B. Ehringhaus of this city. The prayers of the seven cities and the astounding recovery of the child against all odds is the talk of the town.


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