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Oliver Sikes (1778 - February 11th, 1853) was a Methodist circuit rider.

Sikes was born in Suffield, Connecticut. He converted to Methodism around 1800, and was accepted on trial as a circuit rider in 1806 by the New York Conference. He was superannuated in 1810. Sikes never married, and upon his death in Stratford, Connecticut, his property was willed to the Methodist Missionary Society to fund missionary work in China.^[1]

^ Carroll, John (1867). Case and his cotemporaries, or, The Canadian itinerants' memorial constituting a biographical history of Methodism in Canada, from its introduction into the Province, till the death of the Rev. Wm. Case in 1855. Vol. I. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office. p. 166.

[CarrollV1P166-1] Carroll, John (1867). Case and his cotemporaries, or, The Canadian itinerants' memorial constituting a biographical history of Methodism in Canada, from its introduction into the Province, till the death of the Rev. Wm. Case in 1855. Vol. I. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office. p. 166.

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