Sarah Frances Peavler ^{2 3 4}

   Another name for Sarah was Sarah Frances Lightfoot.⁵

  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1880 US Census in Precinct 8, Buckhorn, New Mexico Territory on 22 June 1880. ⁵

1880 US Census
Page 366D, District 16, Dwelling 1, Family 1, Roll 0802
Precinct 8, Buckhorn, Grant County, New Mexico Territory
Sarah Lightfoot..Daughter..7..AR..At Home
(Living with parents.)

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• She appeared on the 1900 US Census in Precinct 8 Lower Gila, Grant County, New Mexico Territory on 27 September 1900. ²

1900 US Census
Sheet 1A, District 57, Family 258
Precinct 8 Lower Gila, Grant County, New Mexico Territory, United States
Farm owned, no mortgage
Married 10 years
Frances S. Herrell..Wife..Feb 1872..28..TX..1/1

(Living with husband, son, and mother.)
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• She appeared on the 1920 US Census in Paradise, AZ on 26 January 1920. ³

1920 US Census
Sheet 2B, District 34, Dwelling 56, Family 57, Roll 47
Paradise, Cochise County, Arizona
Farm owned, no mortgage
Sarah F. Herrell..Wife..46..TX
(Living with husband, married son and his wife, and father.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 4 Feb 1872, then her age should have been 47 instead of 46.
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• Her obituary was published in the Arizona Republic on 19 September 1959 in Arizona.

Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Frances Herrell, 87, Arizona pioneer who died Thursday in a Phoenix hospital, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Arizona Funeral Home chapel, 376 N. Third Ave. Burial will be in a Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe. Mrs. Herrell, born in Texas, came to Arizona in a covered wagon with her parents when she was eight. The family settled first in Cochise County. She moved to the Phoenix and Gila Bend area 20 years ago. She resided in Gila Bend. She was the mother of the late Robert Clay Herrell, an inspector for the Arizona Livestock Sanitary Board at Gila Bend, and was the wife of the late Robert L. Herrell. She is survived by six grandchildren, Miss Mildred and Robert L. Herrell, both of San Diego; James Johnson, Elko, NV.; Paul and Warner Herrell, both of Phoenix; and Ralph Herrell, of Gila Bend; a sister, Mrs. J. H. Lacey, San Simon; and nine great grandchildren.

(Source: Arizona Republic, 19 Sep 1959)
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• She was buried on 20 September 1959 in the Tempe Double Butte Cemetery in Tempe, AZ.

Find A Grave Memorial 32123958
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Sarah married Robert Lee Herrell about 1890 in Duncan, AZ.^{2 3 6} (Robert Lee Herrell was born on 27 July 1869 in Butler, MO,⁷ died on 21 June 1954 in Phoenix, AZ ⁷ and was buried after 21 June 1954 in Tempe, AZ ⁷.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1900 US Census in Precinct 8 Lower Gila, Grant County, New Mexico Territory on 27 September 1900. ²

1900 US Census
Sheet 1A, District 57, Family 258
Precinct 8 Lower Gila, Grant County, New Mexico Territory, United States
Farm owned, no mortgage
Married 10 years
Robert Herrell..Head..Jul 1870..29..MO..Farmer
Frances S. Herrell..Wife..Feb 1872..28..TX..1/1
Robert C. Herrell..Son..Dec 1895..4..NM
Sarah E. Lightfoot..Mother-in-law..Apr 1834..66..TN..married 10 years..2/2

(Living next door to Sarah's married adopted son, his wife, and Sarah's husband, Jacob.)
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• They appeared on the 1920 US Census in Paradise, AZ on 26 January 1920. ³

1920 US Census
Sheet 2B, District 34, Dwelling 56, Family 57, Roll 47
Paradise, Cochise County, Arizona
Farm owned, no mortgage
Robert L. Herrell..Head..47..MO..Farmer, General Farm
Sarah F. Herrell..Wife..46..TX
Robert C. Herrell..Son..24..AZ..Farmer, General Farm
Allie M. Herrell..Daughter-in-law..16..TX
Jacob Lightfoot..Father-in-law..86..IN
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