When Sarah Marinda Brooks was born on 9 December 1862, in San Bernardino, California, United States, her father, James Simpkin Brooks, was 36 and her mother, Lydia Webster Ann, was 34. She lived in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1910 and Guadalupe, Santa Barbara, California, United States in 1920. She died on 21 March 1921, in Perris, Riverside, California, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.