Sarah Garrigus (maiden name: Shepard) was born around 1804 in Morris County, New Jersey, to John Shepard. She married Isaac Garrigus on September 15, 1822, and they had at least ten children: Mary, born around 1823; Euphronia, born around 1826; Lewis, born around 1834; Cyrus, born around 1836; Jacob Henry, born on March 25, 1838; Sarah, born around 1840; Charlotte, born around 1842; Horace, born around 1844; Ellen, born around 1846; and Aaron, born around 1849. They lived in Morris County, New Jersey before moving to Connecticut, in the early 1860s. Her husband died there in 1865, and by 1870, she was living in her son Jacob Henry’s household in Wolcott, Connecticut. She died in Wolcott around 1884.