(Contributed by CLAPP Family Member and FAG Contributor, sleuth2:

DOROTHY ANN (CLAPP), b.1918, Greenbush, MA, d.2002, Greenbush, MA, the only daughter of Richard Clapp and Mary Edith (Walling) of Scituate, and wife of LAWRENCE JOSEPH LANGLEY, and mother of Beverly, Phyllis, Joyce, Annette, Larry and Christine Langley.

Dorothy was born in Greenbush as were numerous generations of her family before her, including those who came to own the grist mill, icehouse, and blacksmith shop across from the pond in Greenbush. She graduated Stanford Nursing Hospital in CT as a registered nurse and went on to work in Cambridge where she met Lawrence Langley. They married and built a home on Old Oaken Bucket Road, across from the cranberry bog. Dorothy went into private duty nursing, also assisted local physician Ruth Bailey with home births and as the town's first responders with road accidents.

Endeared to many locals as "Dot", she spent her early life around horses, cranberry bogs and hunting the North River and woodlands with her father, an attorney and cranberry bog owner. She had absorbed town lore and associations her family had had with many of the other families of Greenbush and Scituate who had lived there for generations as hers had. She became the "go to" person for "all things Greenbush and Scituate". She became the Scituate Town Archivist, conducting research and genealogy for inquiries they received. In 1987 she authored and published the "Record of the Clapp Family of Greenbush, MA, 1866-1986", which is available at the Scituate Historical Society, along with many of her research books.

Dorothy's parents, Richard Clapp and Mary Edith (Walling) are buried next to her, along with her grandmother Edith M. (Lake) Walling).