When Sarah Cummings was born on 21 May 1840, in Bartholomew, Indiana, United States, her father, John Nelson Cummings, was 23 and her mother, Martha Lease, was 17. She lived in LaGrange, Bloomfield Township, LaGrange, Indiana, United States in 1860. She died on 1 November 1921, in Clay Township, LaGrange, Indiana, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in LaGrange, Bloomfield Township, LaGrange, Indiana, United States.