The Sarah Cockrell Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR or DAR), was designed to meet the needs of busy women in today’s world and was named after Sarah Horton Cockrell. Sarah Cockrell was one of the original founders of the city of Dallas and has been remembered for her leadership in Dallas’s pioneer days. Our primary meeting location is close to downtown Dallas in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas, an area quite close to where Sarah Cockrell actually lived. The Chapter was organized on December 12, 2009, and the organizational meeting was a tour through downtown/uptown Dallas tracing the steps of the life of Sarah Cockrell ending with a memorial service at Sarah’s gravesite.
Membership is open to all women eighteen years of age and older who can provide lineal, bloodline descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving American independence. Read more details on our Texas membership page.
By 1851, there were 160 residents in the town of Dallas. Of the new residents, none would match the contributions made by Sarah Cockrell. After being widowed and left to provide for her four young children, Sarah Cockrell dared to live her life on her own terms and established a precedent and a tradition for women to be significant role players in developing a major city. Sarah built the first steel bridge across the Trinity River, the first skyscraper, and was the first woman to speak before the Texas State Legislature. She is a fitting role model for today’s woman.
Chapter meetings are usually held on the second Saturday of the month October through May, with additional social events, service activities, and special programs offered on different dates, in the evenings, and during the summer months. Chapter programs offered during meetings have included a wide variety of interests, including genealogy, commemorative events, field trips, re-enactments of historical personalities, and greeting returning veterans through the Honor Flight Network. Contact us if you would like to join in.
The DAR is a women's service organization dedicated to promoting historic preservation, education, patriotism, and honoring the Patriots of the American Revolutionary War. The Sarah Cockrell Chapter, NSDAR, has participated in a variety of service projects, including maintenance of the family cemetery plot for Sarah Cockrell and her family, restoration of markers at Dallas’ oldest existing fire station, providing a local classroom with much needed supplies, collection and distribution of necessities through Genesis Women’s Shelter, and donation of monies to the local Fisher’s House for families of hospitalized veterans.
The chapter worked together on an American Heritage project, creating a Scrapbook Cookbook with unique recipes created throughout the past years to tell the story of our ancestors and represent the times in which they lived.
The chapter proudly nominated local radio celebrity Jody Dean who was awarded the prestigious Texas Society DAR Media Award in recognition of his work in the community promoting patriotism through the years. The chapter has also sponsored local retired police officer Doug Sisk who was presented with the DAR Distinguished Citizen Medal at our state conference.
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