When Rosetta Andrus was born on 17 September 1852, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, her father, Edwin Andrus, was 46 and her mother, Macena Moore Moore, was 42. She married Henry William Sorge on 4 March 1874, in Reedsburg, Sauk, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Wisconsin, United States in 1870. She died on 18 February 1881, in Reedsburg, Sauk, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Reedsburg, Sauk, Wisconsin, United States.