Her nephew, Nicholas Tarter, wrote in 1940:

"Sarah "Sallie" Estes, Grandfather's oldest daughter, married Hugh Faulkingbury [Fulkenbury] in 1841, or when she was sixteen years of age. By him she had five children, all born in Arkansas. These were Martha, born early in 1842, then came Susan, David, Thomas, and John. The whole family arrived in Oregon with my parents in 1853, except Mr. Fulkenbury, who died on the plains.
Sometime after coming to Oregon, Aunt Sallie married William Sebring, a widower with five children, three of whom were almost grown. He had previously buried two wives. He owned a large farm adjoining the one my father bought, near the present site of Airlie, in 1860, Polk County, Oregon. On this farm Aunt Sallie had five Sebring children. In rotation they were: Andrew, George, James, Emily, and Marcus. They lived on this farm till buying a farm seven miles from Roseburg. While here Aunt Sallie concluded to leave Mr. Sebring, saying that she could not bear his abusive and tyrannical treatment any longer. So she came back to Polk County, Oregon, in 1872 or 1873. Later Mr. Sebring offered to allow her to keep the young children and give her $800 as a settlement. This she accepted, but they were never divorced. Mr. Sebring remained in Roseburg with his oldest son, Francis, till his death.

After the separation, Aunt Sallie lived in several places in Polk County, always having some of her children about her. She was living in Airlie, occupying her own home when she died, in the year 1906, at the age of eighty-one. She was buried in the English cemetery near Airlie. Two of her sons, David and Thomas, died when they were young men, with tuberculosis, but Martha, Susan and John lived to be more than eighty years of age. Marcus is the only one remaining of her children at this date, September 25, 1939."