Sarah J. Murdock (maiden name: Blair) was born on January 1, 1853, in Indiana. She married Eliphalet Murdock around 1872, and their son William was born around 1874. They lived in Osgood, Indiana, and her husband worked as a farmer. They moved to Washington, Indiana, in the late 1800s and then to Visalia, California, around 1904. She supported the Republican Party, and she registered to vote in the early 1900s. Her husband died in 1914, and she spent the next two years in her son William’s household. She died in Tulare County, California, on September 28, 1916.