When Sarah Ann Poole was born in January 1765, in Goose Creek Monthly Meeting, Loudoun, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Benjamin Pool Sr., was 35 and her mother, Rebecca Parker, was 30. She married Pvt. John B Irey in 1783, in Sterling, Loudoun, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died in 1844, in Clarion, Vinton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 79.