When Sarah Caroline Holsworth was born on 27 May 1896, in Bladen, Webster, Nebraska, United States, her father, James Holsworth, was 31 and her mother, Gertrude Geraldine McKay, was 21. She married Eugene Tracy Hanchett on 26 May 1918, in United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Clark, South Dakota, United States in 1935 and Garfield Township, Hamlin, South Dakota, United States in 1940. She died on 8 April 1959, in Milbank, Grant, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Collins Cemetery, Collins Township, Clark, South Dakota, United States.