Daring Dicey Chapter of DAR Formed in Lamar County, AL
This was sent to me by the Daring Dicey Chapter of the DAR:
The Daring Dicey Chapter of Daughters of American Revolution held their organizational meeting on 22 February, 2009 at the City Hall in Vernon, Alabama, with Kawatha “Kay” Koonce as the Organizing Regent. Alabama State Regent Shelby Dean Ward administered the Oath to the following Organizing members; Ann Black, Norma Chandler, Mahalia Enlow, Ruth Ann Faris, Teressa George, Jennifer Hopper, Kawatha Koonce, Ruth Newell, Chloe Otts, Mary Elna Rector, Janiece Yerby Strickland, Donna Thompson, and Deana Vernon
Alabama State Regent Shelby Ward administered the Oath of Office to the following officers of the chapter; Regent, Kawatha “Kay” Koonce; Vice Regent, Mahalia Ann Enlow; Recording and Reporting Secretary, Deana Vernon; Treasurer, Ruth Newell; Registrar, Ruth Ann Faris; Historian, Mahalia Ann Enlow; Librarian, Jennifer Hopper; Chaplain, Chloe Hankins Otts Parliamentarian, Teressa Chandler George
We had 46 attendees for the event, including the following State of Alabama Officers; Regent,Shelby D. Ward; Corresponding Secretary, Annette Smith; Recording Secretary and incoming State Regent, Rita Horton: Organizing Secretary, Tad Douglas; First Vice Regent, Helen Hahn.
Also attending and our speaker for the event was Cindy Shelton Hays, D. C. Corresponding Secretary, who spoke of the history of our chapter name. “ Daring Dicey”, who was Laodicea Langston, a female Revolutionary War Patriot growing up in North Carolina, who forged the river to warn our troops that the Tories planned to attach, in addition to standing between the Tories and her father to keep them from killing him. She later married Thomas Springfield and bore at least 22 children. A third generation descendant of Dicey was Thomas Walker Springfield, who was a minister at Springfield Free Will Baptist Church in Lamar County. Among her many descendants in Lamar and surrounding counties is Dona Sanders Thompson, an organizing member of the Daring Dicey Chapter.
The DAR founded in 1890 and headquartered in Washington, D. C. , is a non-profit, non-political volunteer women’s service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history, and securing America’s future through better education for children.
The Daring Dicey Chapter of DAR is the first in the history of Lamar County
We welcome any one interested in becoming a member of the Chapter, who has lineal descent from a Revolutionary War Patriot, to contact Ruth Ann Faris at faris@hughes.net , Kawatha ‘Kay’ Koonce kaykoon@bellsouth.net or any of the members of Daring Dicey Chapter.
Our next meeting will be on the 4th Sunday in March with the location announced in this newspaper.
Deana Vernon, Corresponding Secretary
