Mary Sparkes Wheeler
Mary Sparkes Wheeler (née, Sparkes; 21 June 1835 – 21 January 1919) was a British-born American author, poet, and lecturer. She wrote the lyrics to several hymns, including two well-known soldiers' decoration hymns. Her poems were set to music by Professor Sweeney, P. P. Bliss, Kirkpatrick and others. She was the author of Poems for the Fireside (1883), Modern Cosmogony and the Bible (1880), First decade of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church : with sketches of its missionaries (1883), As it is in Heaven (1906), and Consecration and purity, or, The will of God concerning me (1913).
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| Born | Mary Sparkes 21 June 1835 near Tintern Abbey, England |
| Died | January 21, 1919 (aged 83) Ocean Grove, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Resting place | Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, New York, U.S. |
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| Language | English |
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Henry Wheeler (m. 1858) |
| Children | 7, including Mary Wheeler Newberry and G. Post Wheeler |
| Relatives | Fannie Sparkes (sister) |
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