When Sarah Louise Foss was born on 3 August 1843, in Hiram, Oxford, Maine, United States, her father, Foxwell Cutts Foss, was 31 and her mother, Sarah P. Webster, was 28. She married Lorenzo William T Davis on 2 October 1861, in Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 3 October 1877, in Maine, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Biddeford, York, Maine, United States.