Sarah Levira Lewis and Robert Lee McBroom
Sarah Levira Lewis & (1)
James Knox Polk Pipkins (Divorced) (2) Robert Lee McBroom
Sarah Levira Lewis and Robert Lee McBroom
Sarah Levira Lewis was born 16 January, 1870, in Minersville, Utah. Her parents were Samuel Lewis and Sarah Jane Huntsman. She was the 10th child in a family of twelve children.
Sarah grew up in this town and we suppose went to school and did the things girls did in that day as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1880 Levira left Panguich with her parents and came to Arizona.
Here Levira with the rest of the girls of the family, helped with house work, went to school and at the age of 14 went with her mother to see her brother, Samuel Edward Lewis, who lived in Ramah, New Mexico. There they visited for some time. Levira became acquainted with a man by the name of J. K. P. Pipkin, and if I haven't the wrong impression, she married this man and did not return home with her mother. She lived at the home of this man about eight miles out of Ramah. While here she became the mother of three children, a boy, Arthur, and two girls, Sarah Jane (When she was baptized it was done under the name of Emaline), and the baby, Ella Bertha. Trouble came between this couple and it lasted some time. Little Ella Bertha drowned in a small pond of water left by a flash flood, which caused much sorrow. Trouble stilt brewed, and at last her mother came by team and wagon to take Levira and the children back to the Gila Valley. I will not go into detail but a terrible tragedy happened and Uncle Joseph was killed and was buried in Ramah cemetery, and the family came on home. Uncle Joseph was killed by assassins.
This was in October and the next April 5th another girl was born to Levira in Pima. She now had three children to care for, so her mother cared for them while Vira got work and supported them. Later she married Robert McBroom of Globe, Arizona and moved there. She had four more children by him, making eight in all. The older children took care of themselves and grew up to be good men and women.
In 1953 her second husband, Robert McBroom died and Levira got a Job and worked until she was too old to climb the hills and keep up with her job. She took it easy for a few years until she became afflicted with arthritis and finally got so bad she spent the last five years of her live in the hospital in Globe, Arizona.
Aunt Levira had a tragedy in her later life. Her son, Clarence, volunteered and entered World War II, went over seas, was in combat and later quit writing. It worried his mother, who got the Red Cross to hunt for him and they found he had married a girl in England, but she had lost track of him. They both spent a long time trying to find him but to this day nothing has ever been heard from him.
After five long years in the hospital, Sarah Levira Lewis McBroom passed away 4 October 1960. Funeral services were held in the Mormon Church in Globe, Arizona. Arthur, Effie and Emma were present. Emeline couldn't make it there. Josephine was in California but she had visited her mother a few days before her death. The ladies of the Relief Society served a lovely lunch at Effie's home where many of the family gathered.
Bertha, her baby sister, the only living member of the family, represented the family and it was like a family reunion. We all followed the body to Thatcher where our Dear Aunt was laid away by the side of her mother, father, and Aunt Keturah---her sisters all in one plot. Emaline came from St. David for part of the funeral.
This plot of hallowed ground has a lovely cement wall around it and each grave has a lovely headstone. It has been covered with blue gravel and looks very nice. There we will leave them until the Lord gets ready to raise them up.