When Sarah J Betz was born on 3 April 1839, in Virginia, United States, her father, William Otey Betz, was 21 and her mother, Belinda Carner, was 26. She married Silas or Cyrus Hildebrand on 22 November 1857, in Miller, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Saline Township, Miller, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States in 1910. She died on 9 March 1914, in Henryetta, Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 74.