When Sarah Emmeline Covert was born about 1846, in Ozark, Franklin, Arkansas, United States, her father, John Bates Covert, was 31 and her mother, Hester Ann Warner, was 33. She married Henry Madison Walthall on 21 January 1864, in San Joaquin, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in White Oak, Franklin, Arkansas, United States in 1850 and Calaveras, California, United States in 1860. She died after 1871, in California, United States, at the age of 26.