When Sarah Eliza Miller was born on 22 October 1837, in Fall River, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Philip Miller, was 39 and her mother, Lucy Reeves, was 29. She married John Robert Stephen on 19 May 1863, in Fall River, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Truro, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1881 and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1901. She died on 18 March 1941, in Fall River, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 103, and was buried in Fall River, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.