Sarah Caten (maiden name: Audet) was born around 1815 in Canada. She got married and had at least three children: Matilda, born around 1844; James, born around 1847; and Henry, born around 1848. They lived in Phillipsburg, Canada. Her husband died sometime before 1851, and she earned a living as a seamstress. The family immigrated to America in the early 1850s and settled in Kingsburg, New York. She died sometime after 1865.