Sarah Ritter (maiden name: Sanders) was born around 1817 in Kentucky to Jacob and Phebe Sanders. The family moved to Illinois by the early 1830s and settled in Martin County, Indiana, by the early 1840s. She married Abraham Ritter there on May 12, 1845. Her husband may have died sometime before 1860. By 1860, she was living in her parents’ household in Baker, Indiana. She probably died there in the early 1860s.