Sarah Griffin Lewis was born January 29, 1786, in Hampshire County, Virginia, the second child of John Lewis and Elizabeth Harvey. Continually moving west, the family of eight children and their parents arrived in St. Louis on January 5, 1797, when Sarah was 11. They bought land 16 miles west of St. Louis on Bon Homme Creek and built a cabin of rough logs with a clapboard roof and a stone fireplace for cooking.

Daniel Morgan was the third son and the seventh of the nine children of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone. He was born December 23, 1769, in Yadkin, North Carolina. The family moved to Kentucky, established Boonsborough, then came west to Missouri. For twelve years Daniel Morgan spent his summers in St. Louis and his winters hunting and trapping beaver, mainly on the Big and Little Blue Rivers in the Kansas City area.

Sarah was 14 years old and Daniel Morgan Boone was 31 when they were married in March of 1800 at the Church of St. Charles of Borromeo in St. Louis. After the ceremony at which both sets of parents were present, the couple moved to Darst Bottoms, west of St. Louis. Later they moved west. Of their twelve children, nine survived. They had 52 grandchildren and 128 great-grandchildren.

In 1831, Daniel Morgan and Sarah 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 Street and Holmes.

One of the oldest cemeteries in the Kansas City area, known as the Boone-Hays Cemetery, is located on a bluff above 63rd Street between The Paseo and Brooklyn Avenue. This land was part of the farm of Daniel Morgan and Sarah Boone who sold it to Boone-Hays in 1836. Daniel Morgan, Sarah, and many of their children and other family members are buried there. When 63rd Street was cut through, the cemetery was cut in half with many graves probably lost. In recent years the cemetery has been under the care of the Native Sons & Daughters of Kansas City who, with the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department, have put together a 14-acre park at the site. The new park was dedicated in 2005. A few gravestones can still be seen along with several monuments erected by the DAR and other patriotic and lineage societies.