Martha Bray Carson

2025-2026 Bill 969: Martha Bray Carson - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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S. 969
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Senate Resolution
Sponsors: Senator Verdin
Document Path: SR-0561KM-AMB26.docx
Introduced in the Senate on March 3, 2026
Adopted by the Senate on March 3, 2026
Summary: Martha Bray Carson
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date

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Action Description with journal page number

3/3/2026

Senate

Introduced and adopted (
Senate Journal-page 4
)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
03/03/2026

A
senate
RESOLUTION

TO recognize and honor Martha Bray Carson, remember
her contribution of the Pledge to the South Carolina state flag, and REsolve that
the ungloved right hand be placed over the heart while reciting the Pledge.

W
hereas, the State of
South Carolina did not have a salute to the state flag for more than one
hundred seventy-five years until Martha Bray Carson of Chester wrote the pledge
for the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1950. Her pledge says, "I salute
the flag of South Carolina and pledge to the Palmetto State love, loyalty, and
faith"; and

W
hereas, a civic
leader, Mrs. Carson served the Mary Adair Daughters of the American Revolution
Chapter as Regent and the South Carolina Society Daughters of the American
Revolution as State Genealogist from 1936-to 1946 and as State Registrar from 1946-1949.
She also served the United Daughters of the Confederacy as South Carolina
Division President from 1944-1946 and as Registrar General of the entire
organization from 1948-1951; and

W
hereas, over the
years, Mrs. Carson received many recognitions, including being admitted to the
National League of Pen Women. She served in all offices with conscientious
devotion to duty, efficiency in detail, and untiring interest; and

W
hereas, Mrs. Carson passed
away on September 16, 1953, and did not see the fruit of her labor before the
South Carolina General Assembly adopted her pledge in April 1966; and

W
hereas, it would be
fitting and proper to recognize this daughter of South Carolina and to
recognize that it is appropriate to place an ungloved right hand over the heart
while reciting the pledge; and

W
hereas, the members of
the South Carolina Senate greatly appreciate the dedication and commitment that
Martha Bray Carson has shown in serving the people and the State of South
Carolina. Now, therefore,

B
e it resolved by the
Senate
:

T
hat the members of the
South Carolina
Senate
, by this resolution,
recognize and honor Martha Bray Carson, remember her contribution of the pledge
to the South Carolina state flag, and resolve that the ungloved right hand be
placed over the heart while reciting the pledge.

B
e it further resolved
that a copy of this resolution be presented to Martha Bray Carson's cousin, Julie
N. Hardaway.

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