Dicey Langston Article
Laurens Advertiser about Dicey Langston’s Memory & Memorial by DAR from 1907
“THE GRAVE OF DICEY LANGSTON. Heroine of the Revolutionary War Who has Descendants in Laurens.
On next Thursday near old Enoree church about two miles from Traveler’s Rest, the Nathaniel Greene chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will hold a celebration in honor of Dicey Langston, a heroine of the Revolutionaay war. The exercises will be presided over by Mr. R. Mays Cleveland and there will be an oration by former Senator Alvin II. Dean. At the conclusion of the exercises a marker will be placed on her grave.
Dicey Langston was one of the great number who though unable to fight in the battles, aided those who did fight? their husbands, brothers and fathers. It is said that once she saved her father from death at the hands of a Tory by throwing herself between the two when the latter was fixing to kill the former. Another incident in the history of her life is the saving of a camp of Ameri can soldiers from almost sure death. In some way she learned that the Tories were advancing upon the camp and in order to warn them of the approach of the Tories she was forced to swim across the river.
Dicey Langston has many decedents living in this and Laurens counties. The Power, Clark, Altom, Griffin and Love families are among her descendants. A man by the name of John Bates married one of Dicey Langston’s daughters and they had twenty-seven children.
It is expected that there will be a huge crowd at the celebration at old Enoree church next Thursday and the exercises will be very interesting. There will be quite a number to go up from this city. The remains of the heroine are interred in the graveyard of this
church. The appropriate markers which will be placed on the grave will be furnished by the Nathaniel Greene chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution.”
