Sarah J. Holbrook (b. Arms) (1826-1903) was born in Conway, Massachusetts, and died in Jamestown, New York. She married Jedediah Griffith in 1845 in Fluvanna, New York. He died in 1849 and, sometime before 1860, she married K. L. Holbrook, a lumber dealer, and they subsequently moved to Winona, Minnesota. Holbrook was widowed a second time in 1873. She remained in Winona until the mid-1880s. Then she moved to Jamestown, New York, where she remained until her passing, with the exception of a few years in the 1890s when she lived in Warren, Pennsylvania. Holbrook took the Primary course from Mary Baker Eddy in 1888 and was listed as a practitioner of Christian Science in The Christian Science Journal from 1893 through 1896 in Warren and from 1897 through 1902 in Jamestown. She joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 5, 1892. Her granddaughter, Ruby Holbrook, whom she lived with and cared for in Jamestown, joined on June 2, 1900.

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