Sally, daughter of John and Nancy (Cox) Taylor was well educated, energetic and cheerful, though slight and fragile in person. She was married to Daniel Holmes, a farmer, February 12, 1811 and settled in Carlisle, New York. In 1813, they united with Presbyterian Church and February 1818 they moved to "Holland Purchase," Wilson, Niagara County, New York on the shore of Lake Ontario, where she endured the privations, hardships and poverty of frontier life with Christian heroism, equal to every emergency, physical, mental, and moral. She was the mother of thirteen children, of whom ten survived and became the heads of families. Her heart and hand were ever open to the sad, sick, and needy. She was one of six who in 1819 organized the First Presbyterian Church of Wilson. To it her sympathy, prayers, and material aid have been constantly and cheerfully given for sixty-seven years. She has given a bountifully Thanksgiving dinner to her children and descendants every year for more than fifty years, never neglecting to express her earnest desire for the spiritual welfare of her family to the latest generation. Her brother, Honorable John W. Taylor, in 1845 wrote: "She was a favorite sister. To energy and decision she united a mild temper and great industry. She had a place for everything, and everything in its place." When over eighty years old, she was relating to a niece many of the incidents of her life and closed thus – "and I think I have enjoyed as much domestic happiness as is often found on earth." She occupied the old homestead with her daughter Mary Elizabeth Holmes Brown and family, and was ready to welcome the absent members of the family and their friends. In 1886, she was in good health, wrote a beautiful letter, and was an industrious Bible student.