The Western Association of Leavitt Families

Sculptures Honor Pioneer Midwives

Published in Lab Law Weekly, September 12th, 2008

When the Sarah Sturtevant Leavitt straggled over the rugged southern Utah mountains with the families of her four sons and three daughters, she would little have imagined that more than a century hence the little band would be memorialized in bronze. Nevertheless, the memorializing of these hardy folks, among the very first to settle in this southern country, is about to be complete.

When her husband Jeremiah Leavitt died, he left Sarah with ten children bound to join the westward migration of Latter-day Saints in their migration to the Salt Lake Valley. Three of those children died before they reached their destination. The remaining seven, along with their mother,...

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Source: Lab Law Weekly (2008-09-12)

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