Provided by Denise Crawford:

Married first: Adrian Miles - divorced.
Married second: J. C. Himmelsbach - divorced.

Daughter of Thomas Cockrell & Keziah Church.

Information from Mineral County Montana Death and Burial Record Index.

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Provided by RunninonMT:

Prior to the outbreak of the Civil War in April of 1861, the Thomas Jefferson Cockrell family was residing on a farmstead in Newton County in southwest Missouri just north of the border with the newly seceded rebel state of Arkansas. It's unclear if the whole family moved farther north to the 'safer' areas under Union control, but the pregnant Keziah did, as nine months after the start of hostilities on January 10, 1862, Sarah Elizabeth Cockrell was born in the northern county of Carroll, Missouri. Thomas mustered in with the pro-Union Missouri State Militia at Cassville on Feb. 28, 1862, and went off to persue Confederates. This left Keziah on her own to care for the six children - now seven - all under eight years of age.
There is a story passed down in the family history about Keziah protecting her young family from "bushwackers" who "raided and plundered their home - taking everything in sight including food and clothing." The only thing she could salvage was "a sack of salt that she hid between the crib and the dirt wall in their food cellar." The crib now being occupied by the baby Sarah, born in the midst of the turmoil and strife of the great American tragedy raging about them in western Missouri. After the war, the family continued to reside in Newton County, Missouri, and it was here Sarah spent the days of her youth.
On her birthday, January 10, 1888, 26 year-old Sarah married Adrian Miles in Harrisonville, Cass County, Missouri. Several years later they came to then Missoula County, Montana, and the little town named Superior near the gold fields on Cedar Creek, and raised three children - Laura, Anna and Thomas. The 1900 census shows the family with Adrian employed as a lumberman, but by 1910, Sarah lists herself as divorced and working as a laundress in her home.
A story in 'The Mineral Independent', Thursday, Oct. 19, 1916 states "Mrs. Lizzie Miles of Superior was married Monday in Missoula to J. C. Himmelspach, who formerly conducted a restaurant here, but who is now a resident of Wallace (presumably Idaho)... They will make their home in Wallace." Unfortunately, it appears this second marriage is short lived, and Sarah may not have resided long in Wallace, as by 1920 she is again listed on the census for Superior, Montana, marital status is divorced.
Sarah's desire to be independent is evidenced in the proving-up of a land patent for a homestead land claim of 7.5 acres in Mineral County. The 3 year proof, issued in July of 1919, shows her name on the initial filing as "Miles", but finalized with "Himmelspaugh," but she continued to list herself with the last name of Miles in the subsequent years.
Sarah did struggle to make ends meet as a divorcee, and in her later years she is listed as an "age pensioner" in the care of the county, this in the days before Social Security.
Given her start in life in the early days of the Civil War, it seems almost fitting, then, that Sarah's journey should end in the closing days of another war, the greatest war, World War II. She died on March 10, 1945 in Superior and is buried in the Superior Cemetery.
With a pioneer spirit, Sarah - along with sister Mary L. Cockrell (Johnston) - ventured to the wilds of Western Montana before the turn of the twentieth century, raised a family here, and made the town of Superior her home for over 50 years.