When Sara Emily Schrengohst was born on 7 February 1893, in Sumner, Pierce, Washington, United States, her father, James Albert Schrengohst, was 37 and her mother, Tillie Jane Johnston, was 36. She married Claude Carey Calavan on 25 December 1912, in Sumner, Pierce, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Elma, Grays Harbor, Washington, United States in 1930 and Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States in 1940. She died on 26 February 1967, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States.