Through a series of events, the rest of the family had moved far west to the city of Tombstone in the Arizona Territory.

[5] He decided to work the claims located in Bisbee through his newly formed Neptune Mining Company that was funded by East Coast money.

[8] In 1896 the Herring family left the declining Tombstone area and moved north to the thriving city of Tucson, Arizona.

[8] Herring married rancher and newspaperman Thomas Sorin on July 22, 1898, in her family's home in Tucson.

[8] Thomas Sorin was a successful miner who, like many others, had left his mining operations in Tombstone to focus on other areas in Arizona.

While Sorin and Herring argued on opposite sides of the courtroom in McElwee v. Tombstone Mill and Mining Company, they generally collaborated.

[citation needed] Sarah's third appearance before the nation's highest court occurred after her father's death.

Sorin was helping her attorney brother-in-law Selim M. Franklin on a title case that was argued before the court.

[8][11] On January 5, 1914, Chief Justice White rendered the Court's decision in favor of Sarah and her client, United Globe Mines.

[citation needed] Not long after her triumph in the U.S. Supreme Court in January 1914, Sorin travelled to Tombstone to deal with her father's estate.

Shortly after, she fell ill. Sorin died of pneumonia on April 30, 1914, in Globe, with her husband at her side.

Her obituary was carried on the front page of several newspapers and a special resolution was prepared by the Arizona State Bar Association.