When Sarah Emeline Kennedy was born on 15 March 1844, in Bolton, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, her father, Samuel Barnett Kennedy, was 54 and her mother, Hannah Moseley Morse, was 46. She married Loren Bixby Lord on 18 September 1866. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States for about 30 years. She died on 1 March 1916, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States.