The organizational meeting of the Sarah Lewis Boone Chapter NSDAR led by Organizing Regent Beatrice F. Jourdan was held in Kansas City on May 14, 1959. On June 3, 1959 the Sarah Lewis Boone Chapter was officially confirmed by the national board of management with a membership consisting of twenty-two organizing members and eleven transferees. Our chapter was named in honor of Sarah Lewis Boone because of her key role in Kansas City history. Today we have forty-five members and counting.
We have monthly meetings where we can get together and share in our efforts to give back to our community. At our meetings, we have refreshments and very interesting programs. Click here to join us for one of our meetings.

Who was Sarah Lewis Boone?

Sarah Griffin Lewis was born Jan 29, 1786 in Hampshire County, Virginia, the second child of John Lewis V and Elizabeth Harvey. The family of eight children and their parents arrived in St. Louis on January 5, 1797 when Sarah was 11 years old. They bought land 16 miles west of St. Louis on Bon Homme Creek.

Daniel Morgan Boone was the seventh of the nine children of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone, and was born in 1769. So he was 17 years older than Sarah. They were married in March of 1800 at the Church of St. Charles of Borromeo when she was 14.

They had twelve children and continually moved west. In 1831 Daniel patented 80 acres in the Blue Hills of Missouri and then another 240 acres. They built a permanent home in Westport township near what is now 79th and Holmes.

Daniel died in 1839 and Sarah in 1850, outliving five of their children. They are buried on a grassy knoll just north of 63rd Street and east of Paseo in what is called the Boone-Hays Cemetery. At least nine members of their family are also buried there.

In 1960, the Daughters of the American Revolution erected a monument near the headstones of Daniel Morgan and Sarah.