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States Government, at a cost of $10,000, to two distinguished Revolutionary patriots,
both residents of Midway: Gen, James Sereveu and Gen. Daniel Stewart. President
Woodrow Wilson, who married a daughter of Midway, and ex-President B'oosevelt,
a descendant of GeneraJ Btewart, boti seat letters which were read at &e ceremonies
of unveiling. The shaft is fifty feet in height and thirty feet square at the base,
with the following inscriptions splendidly cast, in relief, on beautiful copper plates.,
and set into the pure white marble:
UNITED STATES SENATOR JOHN ELLIOTT
GEN. JAMBS SCKEVEN
GEN. DANIEL STEWART
HISTORIC SHRINES IN OLD MIDWAY CHURCH YARD
(North Face.)
1750 1778
Sacred to the Memory of BRIGADIER-GENERAL JAMES
SCREVEN, who Fell, Covered with "Wounds, at Svmbury, Near this
Spot, on the 22nd Day of November, 1778. He Died on the 24th
Day of November, 1778, from the Effects of his Wounds.*
(East Face.)
Reared by the Congress of the United States as a Nation's
Tribute to BRIGADIER-GENERALS JAMES SCREVEN and
DANIEL STEWART.
* General Sereven fell mortally wounded about a mile and a half south ol! Midway
Church. This point is fully ten miles distant from Suubury. Consequently, it is
difficult to understand this variation on the momiment. We are indebted to Hon. H.
B. Folsom, of Montgomery, Georgia, for a, description of this obelisk, together with
the inscriptions.