Sarah A. was born in 1857 in ,,Virginia.1 Sarah A.'s father was Thomas Hand and her mother was Catherine. She had a brother and two sisters, named William, Mary E. and Eliza Jane. She was the second oldest of the four children. She had a half-brother and three half-sisters, named Thomas, Elizabeth, Jane and Cordelia. She died at the age of 63 on March 20th, 1920.1