Springfield Chapter NSDAR
Springfield, Illinois

SAR 40th Congress in Springfield, Illinois

May 20, 1929. The 40th Congress of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) was commemorated with a stone marker placed under an elm tree on the north grounds of the Illinois State Centennial Building. Both SAR and DAR are inscribed on the marker. A basket of flowers was presented to Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart, President General of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution who was in Springfield in connection with the Fortieth Congress of the Sons of the American Revolution. Barbara Jane Searcy, daughter of State Senator and Mrs. Earl B. Searcy, and Noble Stockton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Constant N. Stockton, dressed in costumes of a colonial dame and gentleman to present the basket of flowers.