In 1882 Sarah Elizabeth T. Baker married William Joseph Donaway, both were from Sussex County. He was the son of Henry Donaway and Elizabeth Davis Donaway. She was the daughter of Seth Wyatt Baker and Nancy Carey Baker. Joseph was a brakeman at the time with the railroad. They lived in Delmar on North Second street.
In 1914 Joseph would die from Bright's disease, at that time he was a freight conductor on the New York Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad.
Sarah had been running a millinery store with her niece; Elizabeth "Lizzie" W. Niblett (daughter of George and Mary Baker Niblett, she would marry Warren Evans and live in Salisbury) and a friend, Alice Smither. They all lived in the same house on North Second street and they continued the operation.
She would later marry George S Collison (another railroad man, he would die in 1931) and in 1942 she was in the State welfare home in Smyrna Delaware where she would die. Her brothers were Archibald "Archie" Samuel Baker, thomas Green Baker, Willie Baker, Paul Baker and Lee Baker . Her sisters were Cora Baker Brasure and Lillie Baker Parson.
Sarah would die in 1942.
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