When Sarah Catherine Irvin was born on 23 December 1870, in Guntersville, Marshall, Alabama, United States, her father, Benjamin Franklin Irvin, was 25 and her mother, Margaret Lucinda Walker, was 24. She married John Robert Teem on 29 September 1887. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Adams, Idaho, United States in 1935 and Foster Election Precinct, Linn, Oregon, United States in 1940. She died on 14 August 1947, in Sweet Home, Linn, Oregon, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Sweet Home, Linn, Oregon, United States.