Additional information can be found in Stephen Wickes, Thomas Weekes, Emigrant to America 1635 and the Lineage of His Descendant, Thomas Wickes of Huntington, Long Island (1905) and Cornelius Evarts Dickinson, A Century of Church Life. A History of the First Congregational Church of Marietta, Ohio, with an Introduction by Rev. John W. Simpson ([Marietta, OH]: E.R. Alderman & Sons, 1896).
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Wickes User Guide
Robert H. Ellison
The User Guide for the Library of Appalachian Preaching is a Google Sheet that can be searched, sorted, and downloaded for offline use.
This part of the Guide provides information about Wicke’s sermons and other discourses. It includes the title, scripture text, date and place the address was delivered (if known), and so on. This information is available in the master list of sermons as well.
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Discourse Delivered at the Funeral of Mrs. Caroline Hill, Wife of Rev. Levi L. Fay, October 10, 1854: at the Congregational Church in Lawrence, Washington Co., Ohio
Thomas Wickes
Caroline Hill Fay (1816-1854) was born in Vermont and educated at the New Ipswich Academy in New Hampshire. She married Levi Fay in 1843 and passed away after a long illness at the age of 38 (pp. 10-19). The published text does not indicate why Wickes was selected to preach her funeral sermon.
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Exposition of the Apocalypse: In a Series of Discourses
Thomas Wickes
In the Preface, Wickes writes that “The following discourses were delivered in the regular course of pastoral instruction, without a thought, in the beginning, of their occupying a wider field.” The “earnest solicitation of many friends,” however, “induced [him] to commit them to the press.” He goes on to say, “If the true plan of the prophecy has here been developed, and this alone added to the valuable contributions which others have made to this book, I shall regard my labor as not in vain” (pp. v, vii).
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Historical Discourse: Commemorative of the Organization of the Congregational Church, in Marietta, Delivered at the First Semi-Centennial Celebration, Dec. 6, 1846
Thomas Wickes
The First Congregational Church of Marietta, Ohio was officially formed on December 6, 1796 (p. 8). Exactly 50 years later, Wickes, who had been pastor of the church for about 6 years, delivered this address to mark the occasion.
