Elijah Fordham (April 12, 1798 – 1879) was an early member of the Latter Day Saint movement, most well known for having been miraculously healed by Joseph Smith in 1839.
[1] Fordham joined the Church of the Latter Day Saints in May 1834 in Pontiac, Michigan Territory.
[3] Fordham served as the historian of the section of Zion's Camp that left from Pontiac, Michigan.
He married for the third time when he took Anna Bibbins Chaffee to wife in Ashford, Connecticut on October 3, 1838.
[5] Fordham was healed from the ague by the administration of Joseph Smith at Montrose, Iowa in 1839.