Sauk Trail Chapter NSDAR

About Us

Sauk Trail Chapter NSDAR was organized on July 15, 1926. Thirteen members met with Illinois State Regent, Anna May Bowman (Mrs. Frank J.), in the Chicago Heights home of Anna Clayton. Subsequently most meetings were held in the homes of the members. In the 1980s meetings were moved to libraries or churches in the area.

During the centennial celebration of the first white settler in the southeast Cook County area, the chapter installed a bronze marker to signify the settler location near the intersection of Chicago Road and Lincoln Highway. Later a large engraved boulder honoring the thirteen early settlers was placed in the Forest Preserve along Sauk Trail.

Chapter members continue to support the NSDAR goals of education, historic preservation and patriotism on the national, state, and local levels. The chapter has marked the graves of two Revolutionary War solders: In 1959 the grave of William Hewes, buried in Crete Cemetery, was marked and in 1981, the grave of Benjamin Frye, buried in Liberty Cemetery, Watseka, Illinois, was marked.

Sauk Trail Chapter NSDAR proudly celebrated its 90th Anniversary in May of 2016.