The Miracle of the Flour Barrel

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A Story about Warren & Almira Davis

(Jessica Reed’s Maternal Great, Great, Great Grandparents)

Warren Davis was born in Pottawattamie, Iowa on 13 June 1848. At age 23, on 18 December 1871, he married and was sealed to Almira Stoker in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. This was prior to the completion of the Salt Lake Temple. They had eight children and lived settled in to Spanish Fork, Utah.

Warren was a farmer in Spanish Fork. In about 1888, President Brigham Young asked all the saints in Utah to help with all the immigrants that were moving to Utah by providing flour and other staples to the Bishop’s Storehouse.

This was a cause of great concern to the Davis’. Warren had just been called on a mission and would be leaving his wife and 8 kids to tend the farm in his absence. Flour is something they used very much to make bread for the family. However, they prayed as a family and decided to follow Brigham Young’s counsel.

Each week while Warren was on his mission they would go to a barrel to get flour to give to the Bishop to take the storehouse. And each time when Almira would go to get flour to make bread for the family, the barrel would be full again. It was never empty and they always had what they needed.

When Warren returned from his mission, they thanked God for allowing them the blessing of donating to the other saints and still having enough for their own family. And to this day, the family considers this tender mercy from the Lord, “The Miracle of the Flour Barrel.”

Jessica Reed >>> Lisa DeAnn Nielsen [Reed] >>> Beth DeAnn Davis [Nielsen] >>> Ross Beck Davis >>> John Stoker Davis >>> Warren Edgar Davis