When Sarah Elizabeth Joyner was born on 8 January 1859, in Paris, Henry, Tennessee, United States, her father, William World Joyner, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth Harriett Swearingen, was 30. She married John Wiley Roseberry on 21 December 1880, in Henry, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Civil District 9, Henry, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years and Henry, Tennessee, United States in 1930. She died on 23 May 1953, in Paris, Henry, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Dumpling Hill Cemetery, Haglerville, Henry, Tennessee, United States.