COLUMBIA COUNTY, Ga. (WJBF) – A public ceremony, including a canon and rifle salute, was held Saturday morning, August 2nd, at the Evans Market next to Columbia County Performing Arths Center to honor the memory of Revolutionary War Veteran Stephen Day and to celebrate a new memorial marker being placed at his gravesite.
The family legend passed down over the centuries has particular resonance: Stephen Day was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and raised as a Quaker and was forbidden from fighting in war due to their pacifistic beliefs. When he left home on his own, he moved first to North Carolina where he married, then settled in Georgia.
Once the Revolutionary War began, he broke with the religious tradition he was raised in and joined to fight with the Continental Army…