Mary Sparkes Wheeler

Mary Sparkes Wheeler
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Mary Sparkes 21 June 1835 near Tintern Abbey, England
Died	January 21, 1919(1919-01-21) (aged 83) Ocean Grove, New Jersey, U.S.
Resting place	Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, New York, U.S.
Occupation	author poet lecturer
Language	English
Genre	poetry lyrics non-fiction
Subject	religion history biography
Notable works	Poems for the Fireside Modern Cosmogony and the Bible
Spouse	Henry Wheeler ​ (m. 1858)​
Children	7, including Mary Wheeler Newberry and G. Post Wheeler
Relatives	Fannie Sparkes (sister)

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,^[1] 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),^[2] 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).