When Sarah F. Addington was born on 1 March 1767, in Union, Union, South Carolina, United States, her father, Henry Addington, was 47 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Burson, was 21. She married Major George Bruton on 1 March 1787, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 2 December 1848, in Murray, Georgia, United States, at the age of 81.