When Sarah Elizabeth Poindexter was born on 2 January 1844, in Surry, North Carolina, United States, her father, Thomas Henderson Poindexter, was 43 and her mother, Besty Elizabeth Vest, was 39. She married Horace Bates Frisbee about 1863, in West Plains, Howell, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Auglaize Township, Camden, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Camden, Missouri, United States in 1910. She died on 24 February 1922, in Montreal, Camden, Missouri, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Buffalo Prairie Cemetery, Montreal, Camden, Missouri, United States.