Daughter of Ed­win Ty­ler and Al­la Ma­ry Ed­wards, Sar­ah mar­ried Ed­ward Car­ring­ton Hen­shaw in 1849, in Har­ris­burg, Penn­syl­van­ia. In the Amer­i­can ci­vil war, dur­ing which Ed­ward com­mand­ed Hen­shaw’s Bat­te­ry, Sar­ah lived in Ot­ta­wa, Il­l­inois. There, she helped or­gan­ize an aid so­ci­e­ty and served as its sec­re­ta­ry. Lat­er, she be­came as­so­ci­ate man­ag­er of the San­i­ta­ry Com­miss­ion in Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois, and was elect­ed to write the his­to­ry of its work; she called her book Our Branch and Its Trib­u­tar­ies. Af­ter her hus­band’s death in 1872, Sar­ah moved to Cal­i­for­nia to be near­er to her bro­ther’s es­tate and her son Ed­ward. The 1880 cen­sus shows her liv­ing in Oak­land, Cal­i­for­nia.

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