Mrs. Emma Dibble Sedgwick

I am a daughter of Philo Dibble Jr. and Granddaughter of Philo Dibble Sr. who was associated with the Prophet Joseph Smith in early days. I was married to Richard H. Sedgwick on Oct. 27, 1909. On Oct. 28, 1910, a son was born to us. When he was about five weeks old a neighbor's boy came in the room playing around, he was sneezing and coughing.

The next morning a flag was put up at their place for whooping cough. In just so many days our baby began to have a little cough and gradually grew worse. We sure had a time in caring for him day and night. At times it would seem as though he would choke to death. It was now getting very cold weather, often times I would run out with him limp in my arms in the cold and he would revive up again. He at the time had not been blessed. We called in his Grandfather Richard Sedgwick and an uncle George Sedgwick. They blessed and gave him the name of David Dibble Sedgwick. And as we worked with him night and day but it seemed to still continue to get worse. He would lie limp and his chin drooped and I sent for his Grandmother also a Relief Society teacher that lived near Mrs. Mary Sissons as we were living in Bountiful, Davis County, at the time. His father Richard H. Sedgwick was just away to town for some medicine and I was here alone. Grandmother Sedgwick shook her head as he laid on her lap with his eyes rolled back and almost gone, when I felt impressed to go and offer prayer in his behalf. I stepped in the adjoining room and knelt by the bed and offered prayer and asked the Lord in a simple way if it was his will, to heal my son. I arose and wiped my eyes and walked to the door and as I took hold of the knob to open it I heard the baby make a cry and Grandmother to say what a change in this baby. I stepped back in the room and had a good cry and finally walked out where Grandma was bathing him in olive oil. He seemed as natural and nursed which he hadn't done for all night and day.

This was sure a quick answer to my prayer. He is now a young man about 24 years old and working in the Church organizations in the ward. It is sure a testimony to me in the answer of prayers.

Mrs. Emma D. Sedgwick