The G.C. and Frances Hawley Museum - Mrs. Sarah Boone (Boon) born Sarah Marshall was born in 1832, near New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. Sarah died in 1904 (aged 71–72), in
Sarah Boone (1832-1904) Inventor of the ironing board and one of the first Black Women to be awarded a patent. | Lipstick Alley
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