When Edwina Alfretta Danforth was born in 1858, in Island Pond, Brighton, Essex, Vermont, United States, her father, Ephraim Danforth, was 27 and her mother, Lucy Amanda Emery, was 21. She married Odlin Sanborn on 20 March 1875, in Brighton, Essex, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Stark, Coos, New Hampshire, United States in 1880 and Casco, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1900. She died on 9 September 1900, in Raymond, Cumberland, Maine, United States, at the age of 42.