When Sarah Davis Greer was born on 5 November 1774, in Franklin, Fairfax, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Benjamin Greer, was 47 and her mother, Rachel Lowe, was 47. She married Joel Anderson about 1803, in Cumberland, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. She died on 7 November 1844, in Williamson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Franklin, Williamson, Tennessee, United States.