When Sarepta R. Stegall was born about 1856, in Mississippi, United States, her father, Solomon Jackson Stegall, was 38 and her mother, Alcy Jane Johnson, was 38. She married Thomas J. Carson on 4 December 1877. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States for about 20 years. She died on 29 July 1945, in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States, at the age of 89.