Sarah Rix was born on August 30, 1817, in Connecticut to Thomas and Mary Rix. Her father was a farmer who owned $1,500 of real estate by 1850. She apparently never married, and she remained in her parents’ household in Griswold, Connecticut. Her father died of dropsy on August 8, 1859, and her mother died on July 24, 1866. By 1880, she was living with her brother Thomas in Griswold. She died on January 30, 1893.