No other Revolutionary-era South Carolina woman enjoys more contemporary recognition and fame than Dicey Langston. Laodicea “Dicey” Langston Springfield was born May 14, 1766 in the Ninety Six District, in what later became Laurens County.1 She married Thomas Springfield when they were both age 16. They started a large family and moved to neighboring Greenville County, a region of the state which was in Cherokee Territory until it was ceded to South Carolina in 1777 and opened to White settlers after the Revolutionary War. Though Dicey never lived outside those two South Carolina backcountry locales, people from coast to coast revere Dicey almost 250 years following her acts of Revolutionary War valor.
