When Sarah Jane Pinegar was born on 7 January 1847, in DeKalb, Tennessee, United States, her father, Benjamin Pinegar, was 22 and her mother, Mary Rigsby, was 21. She married John Lawson H. Hutchings on 27 July 1866, in DeKalb, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Civil District 7, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 14, DeKalb, Tennessee, United States in 1920. She died on 1 May 1926, in DeKalb, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 79.