Midway, Ga., March 13. - [Special] - The corner stone of old Midway church, in Liberty county, was relaid today with notable ceremony. From all over the county, and from adjoining counties, men and women came, despite the rain. Savannah was represented by several prominent citizens. Many former residents of Liberty county assisted in the exercises.

The old corner stone, which was laid with such imposing ceremony in 1852, was taken up by the soldiers during the war, and the treasure stolen, but the corner stone itself was recovered, and today it was restored to its place.

Midway Church is Historical. It is a Congregational church, but Presbyterians are really the officials. The building is in control of selectmen appointed yearly by the Midway society, composed of descendants of the old church organization. Every second Wednesday in March the society gathers, and the conventicle attracts all Liberty county. Opposite the church building is the cemetery, where the graves of distinguished Georgians lie thick. The occasional sepulture of some member of an old family alone disturbs the peaceful sod at long intervals. In the sacred plat are the headboards of pine that have stood a century, almost a physical marvel, and nowhere else to be noted. This pine is of a species said to be now totally extinct.

The Central Event of the Occasion today was the address of Hon. C.C. Jones of Augusta, the justly renowned historian. Mr. Jones spoke about an hour and held the audience well under the sway of his crudite eloquence. He began with a resume of the centennial ceremonies of 1852. The speaker, by natural transition, next recalled many revolutionary memories. He alluded to Liberty county's galaxy of great men. Two were signers of the declaration of independence. In the first centennial congress Lyman Hall was sent a delegate before Georgia entered the confederation.

The long roll of famous men was run over. Mr. Jones graphically recounted the battle of Midway and the two sieges of Sunbury. He sketched a picture of the dead town, when it was a potent rival of Savannah. Finally, the story of the war and its devastation was told in Mr. Jones's masterful style.

Source: The Atlanta Constitution, March 14, 1889, Page 3

Submitted by Bob Franks