Sarah J. Dye was born around 1849 in North Carolina to William and Eliza Dye. Her father was a merchant who owned $2,500 of real estate and $10,000 of personal property by 1860. She grew up and attended school in Moore County, North Carolina. By 1880, she was living in her brother David’s household in Jonesboro, North Carolina. She died sometime after 1880.