While she dropped out of school and returned to her hometown, Sarah remained an intellectual woman for her entire life.
Back in Lenox, Sarah met David Davis, a young lawyer who was practicing in Bloomington, Illinois.
They married in 1838 and had a long and loving marriage, evidenced by the many letters they sent each other while Judge Davis was working in Washington, DC and Sarah was at home in Bloomington.
She employed a domestic staff of mostly young Irish immigrants and thought of them as a sort of family when her children were grown and her husband was away.
[2] She was politically informed, seeing that Abraham Lincoln was a close friend of the Davis family and her husband served as his campaign manager and a Supreme Court justice.