Early life: Right eye accident

Slightly noticeable in photographs but never mentioned in his own writing, William Lindsay suffered an accident in 1848 that left him partially handicapped his whole life.

"When he was about fifteen months old he lost the sight of his right eye by being struck with a sharp piece of a broken dish. His parents were members of the LDS Church at this time. He screamed and cried with the severe pain of his injured eye, so they had the elders lay their hands on his head and give him a blessing. He stopped crying and the pain left him. This special blessing strengthened the Lindsay's faith in the gospel they had recently embraced a month or so before."

Source: James and Mary Murray Murdoch Family History