According to her husband, who himself had physical disabilities which limited his height, Sarah too was similar in stature.
He had done this because his behavior in English Quaker meeting houses would have halted his acquiring of a document for marriage.
Sarah Smith, on the other hand, was described as "an intelligent and pious woman" and "an approved minister of the gospel" at Friends Meetings.
[2] While it is not known if this difference caused trouble in their personal relationship, fellow Quakers struggled to understand how Sarah could put up with the radical.
Upon their arrival in Barbados, the Lays opened up a merchant shop, or goods store.
One author said of the work which Lay writes of his wife in, that "His words tell of the respect he held for her and the painful loss he felt after their social and physical separation.