Sarah A. Forder (maiden name: Hubbard) was born on September 7, 1835, in Indiana to George Hubbard and Charlotte Stewart. Her father was a blacksmith who owned $400 of real estate by 1850. She grew up in Vernon, Indiana, and she married William Forder on August 28, 1860. Their daughter Melissa was born around 1862. Her husband enlisted in the Union army on September 13, 1862, and he died in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on May 11, 1864. She applied for a widow’s pension in August 1864 and eventually secured one. By 1870, she was living in her parents’ household in Franklin, Indiana, and she owned $500 of personal property.
She married Solomon Cline around 1871, and their son Wilmer was born around 1876. They lived in Franklin, and her husband worked as a farmer. They moved to Fawn Creek, Kansas, sometime in the late 1800s, but by 1910, they had settled in Sugar Creek, Indiana. Cline died around 1911, and by 1920, she was living with her son Wilmer in Sugar Creek. She died there of pneumonia on January 31, 1929.