Sarah A. Farlow (c. 1860-1934) was born in Orange Township, Illinois, and died in Van Nuys, California. By 1880 the Farlow family had moved to Knoxville, Illinois, and by 1885 to Beatrice, Nebraska. Sarah worked as a dressmaker in Knoxville and Beatrice. She was one of eight siblings, all of whom composed the Farlow Family Band which toured and performed widely in the Midwestern United States in the mid-1880s. Sarah played the tenor horn. In 1885 the Farlow family was introduced to Christian Science, and in March 1886, Sarah, along with her siblings Alfred, William, and Emma, studied Christian Science with Janet T. Colman, a student of Mary Baker Eddy's. The Farlows moved to Topeka in 1888, where several of them became active in establishing Christian Science, including the founding of the Kansas Christian Science Institute. Sarah recalled seeing Eddy for the first time at the Chicago Christian Science Convention that same year. Together Sarah, Alfred, William, and Emma went on to take the Primary course with Eddy in 1889, and all four subsequently joined both the Christian Science Association and the National Christian Scientist Association. Sarah, Alfred, and William joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 1, 1893, and all later became members of the General Association of Teachers. Sarah worked for a brief time in Mary Baker Eddy's household. The Farlow family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, in the mid-1890s, then to Newton, Massachusetts, around 1900, and finally to Southern California around 1913. Sarah was listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal off and on between 1895 and 1934 in Kansas, Massachusetts, and California.

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