In the spring of 1900, the daughters of the Kershaw Chapter presented the veterans of Laurens County a flag or banner which they could carry to the reunion each year. Two daughters from the Kershaw Chapter volunteered to make the flag. One donated the material for the making of the flag and one contributed the embroidered Palmetto Tree preserved from the Confederate War. It was finished for the Memorial Day. Invitations were sent to the veterans to be at the court house for the dinner prepared for them and served in the old Grand Jury Room. After dinner, veterans and daughters assembled in the court house as the flag was presented as a gift from the daughters. The veterans appointed their old color bearer, Sergeant William Lamb, to receive the gift. He was honored and thanked the daughters. The "Rebel Yell" came from a hundred old veterans. The next morning, Sergeant Lamb was found dead in his chair in his little cottage. The daughters helped the Confederate Veterans, who went to the poor home with clothes and covering to keep them warm as well as foods when needed.
After 58 years of non-existence, the Joseph Brevard Kershaw Chapter #205 reactivated with 10 members in August of 1996 by a group of women in Laurens, South Carolina. By the end of May 1998 there were a total of 17 members with many Real Daughters, grand daughters, and nieces from the first chapter in the early 1900's. They had fathers and grandfathers and uncles in Kershaw's Brigade, documented from earlier research.
They showed their dedication to their "heroes" of the lost cause by decorating the soldier's graves with large arrangements of flowers from the entire town. They were placed on the grave sites on Memorial Day. The entire town assembled at the Court House to honor the dead. They formed a line with veterans first, then men, women and children led up the hill to the cemetery. A prepared Honor Roll of the dead was read. The unmarked graves were later marked by small marble slabs.
