The seventh child born to Sarah Frances Zellner and Walter Benjamin Ingram, Sarah Lou Ingram was born on October 13, 1902, in Georgia. She grew up in Monroe and Jackson counties.
Sarah married Hugh D. Perry and the couple settled in Newnan, GA. They had two children, Hugh D. Jr. (1929) and Annette.
When Hugh died in February of 1969, Sarah moved to Winder, GA, to be near her sister, Florine. Sarah died on November 1, 1985, in Winder, at the age of 83.