Official Name: | Sarah, Mississippi |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Mississippi#USA |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Mississippi |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Tate |
Timezone: | Central (CST) |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Elevation Ft: | 187 |
Coordinates: | 34.5694°N -90.2103°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 38665 |
Area Code: | 662 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 677408 |
Sarah is an unincorporated community in Tate County, Mississippi, United States. Sarah is located approximately 5miles south of Savage and 3miles north of Askew along Mississippi Highway 3.
Although an unincorporated community, Sarah has a post office and a zip code of 38665.
The Sarah community is served by the Tate County School District.
On 25 April 2001, Jan Michael Brawner Jr. murdered his father-in-law (Carl Albert Craft), mother-in-law (Martha Jane Craft), ex-wife (Barbara Faye Craft Brawner) and his 3-year-old daughter (Candice Paige Brawner) at the Craft home in the Sarah Community.[1] Brawner was found guilty on four counts of capital murder by jury trial in the Circuit Court of Tate County and was sentenced to death.[2] [3] Brawner was executed by lethal injection at Mississippi State Penitentiary on 12 June 2012.[4]