When Sarah Jane Harroun was born on 23 April 1842, in Sylvania, Lucas, Ohio, United States, her father, John Harroun, was 46 and her mother, Experience Nash, was 35. She married John Jay Witwer on 3 February 1869. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Iowa, United States in 1870. She died in 1922, in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States.