When Sarah Catherine Phillips was born on 11 November 1856, in Jefferson, Marengo, Alabama, United States, her father, Nehemiah W. Phillips, was 37 and her mother, Mary Jane Nicholson, was 26. She married Alonzo L Horne on 9 August 1876, in Jefferson, Marengo, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Short Mountain Township, Logan, Arkansas, United States in 1910 and Mountain Township, Logan, Arkansas, United States in 1920. She died on 20 April 1937, in Paris, Logan, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Paris, Logan, Arkansas, United States.