When Sara Matilda McClelland was born on 21 May 1909, in Warren, Trumbull, Ohio, United States, her father, John Knapp McClelland, was 39 and her mother, Eva Lemley, was 28. She married Kenneth Everitt Grove on 22 August 1930, in Trumbull, Ohio, United States. She lived in Black River Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States in 1940. She died on 15 December 2002, in Warren, Trumbull, Ohio, United States, at the age of 93.