John Stacey

• Name	John Stacey
  Birth	10 Dec 1761	St. Johns Parish, GA
  Gender	Unknown
  Burial	1818
  Death	7 Apr 1818	Liberty Co, GA
  Person ID	I319	Georgia Revolutionary War Graves
  Last Modified	31 Jan 2022

  
  

• Headstones

  Stacey, John 31.8062950 -81.4308010

  
  

• Notes

  P-295767 John Stacy, Jr., was born on December 10, 1761, in St. Johns Parish, Georgia. His parents were John (1725 ? 1781) and Sarah Dunham (1729- 1782) Stacy. His father, John Stacy, Sr., was born in 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, Sr., was a member of the Sons of Liberty, the Georgia Provincial Congress and the Georgia Committee of Correspondence. John Stacy, Sr. died on May 12, 1781, in 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, Jr., served as a Private in the St. John?s Riflemen Militia. John Stacy?s grandson, Rev. James Stacy, wrote "The History of Midway Congregational Church." John Stacy, Jr. married Margaret Wilson in Liberty County on 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 on November 23, 1797, in 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. John Stacy, Jr., died on April 7, 1818, in Liberty County, Georgia, and was buried in the Midway Congregational Church Cemetery, Row A Grave 10. Sources: GA Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers, GASSAR: Vol 2, page 22; Not listed in DAR Pat Index or in the DAR GRS; Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, McCall, vol I, page 158 grave marked 28 Apr 2019 by Blue Ridge Mountins, Brier Creek, Captain John Collins, Marqu9is de Lafayette, Marshes of Glynn, Ocmulgee, Robert Forsyth, Wiregrass Chapters GA SAR