Author: Kenneth Scott Collins

John Stacy, Jr., was born on December 10, 1761, at St. Johns Parish, Georgia. His parents were John Stacy (1725 – 1781) and Sarah Dunham (1729- 1782). His father, John Stacy, Sr., was born at Wales, but was a resident of St. Johns Parish in Georgia prior to 1761 when John Stacy, Jr., was Christened at the Midway Congregational Church.

John Stacy, Jr., served as a Private in the St. John’s Riflemen Militia. His father, John Stacy, Sr., was a member of the Sons of Liberty, the Georgia Provincial Congress and the Georgia Committee of Correspondence. John Stacy, Sr. died May 12, 1781, at Liberty County, Georgia, and was reportedly buried in the Midway Congregational Church Cemetery, but no grave is identified with his stone.

He was a planter and represented Liberty County in the Georgia state legislature in 1796 and 1797. He was active in the Midway Congregational Church where he served as Clerk of the Session from 1798 and as a Deacon from 1809 until his death. John Stacy’s grandson, Rev. James Stacy, wrote "The History of Midway Congregational Church."

John Stacy, Jr., died April 7, 1818, ar Liberty County, Georgia, and was buried in the Midway Congregational Church Cemetery, Row A Grave 10.

John Stacy, Jr. married Margaret Wilson at Liberty County May 3, 1787, and they had two daughters: Mary (1789) and Margaret (1791). His first wife, Margaret, died in 1792, and was buried in the Midway Congregational Church Cemetery.  John’s second wife, Sarah Quarterman (1778-1826), was the daughter of Revolutionary Soldier William Quarterman. They married November 23, 1797, at Liberty County, and had several children: John (1798), James (1801), Elizabeth (1804), Ezra (1807), Sarah Ann (1810), Richard (1811) and Robert (1813). When Sarah Stacy died in 1826, she was also buried in the Midway Congregational Church Cemetery, alongside the graves of her husband, John, and his first wife, Margaret.

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