 She wrote a biography of her husband and his rise from slavery that is included among postwar slave narratives.Sarah Jane Woodson, the fifth daughter and youngest child of eleven of Jemima (Riddle) and Thomas Woodson (1790–1879), was born free in Chillicothe, Ohio, on November 15, 1825.Her parents had moved to the free state of Ohio in 1820 after her father purchased the whole family's freedom for $900.