Francis Lang by W. D. Ritter

was a Marylander, a member of the honored famous "Maryland Line", one of the most notable bodies of men that served in the Revolution. He was in the siege of Ninety-six and saw a woman shot who had come out of the fort to a spring to get water. The sentinel at the spring allowed her to go away with one bucket of water, but warned her not to come again. She came again carrying a babe at her breast. The sentinel ordered her away, telling her he was compelled to shoot her if she got water again. She filled her bucket and started to the fort, and the sentinel shot her dead, by Mr. Lang and Mr. Chaney (they were both there and saw it) differed about the babe – one said it was killed, the other that it was not.

Mr. Lang was in the battle of Eutaw Springs when the British battery played on the "Maryland Line" Such was the feeling of the partisan troops held by regulars that Mr. Land always thought there never was such a man as FRANCIS MARION.

Mr. Chaney’s answer to this, "Sure as there is a FRANCIS LANG, there was a FRANCIS MARION," for, as we have seen in our artice on Mr. Chaney, he (Chaney) had worked in the blacksmith ship with Marion himself, making swords of mill saws. Mr. Lang owned land, lived many years, died and was buried near old JERRY WORKMAN’S.

I knew him well and he was a good citizen. Our old soldier and poet friend, J. R. CORBLEY, says the road is cutting and wearing into his grave and that of his wife. By the way, his wife (SUSANA) was the last person who drew Revolutionary pension in all this county.

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Biographical Memoirs of Greene County, Ind. With Reminiscences of Pioneer Days, Illustrated (1908, B. F. Bowen & Co. Indianapolis, Indiana) Vol. 1 Pg. 96-8