Mrs.
Lewis Wick 
Margaret
Jane Groscost,
who was born March 14, 1839, on a farm near Hartford Center,
Trumbull County, Ohio, was the daughter of John and
Margaret Seaburn Groscost, pioneers from Mifflin County, Pa. Eight
children were born into the home, four boys and four girls, of whom she
was the youngest.
She was married to
the Rev. Lewis Wick, August 2, 1870, at
Clarksville, Mercer County, Pa., by the Rev. A. H.
Domer, of the Erie Conference. Her husband was a member of the One
Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.
Returning from the war, he entered Allegheny College, graduating in 1869,
and was received on trial in the Erie Conference, and placed in charge of Sharpsville
Church, where he met Margaret Groscost. The
next appointment was New Wilmington, where the young couple began
housekeeping. For thirty-three years she bore the burdens and shared the
triumphs of a Methodist itinerant’s fortunes. The husband retired in
1902, on account of physical disability, and the family removed to
Darlington, Beaver County.
Three children were
born into the home—Daisy, the eldest, who
died in infancy and was buried at Slippery Rock; Mary
Belle, the wife of the Rev. J. K. Pollock,
pastor of Sharpsburg Church. with whom the mother made her home since
1918, and Jennie, wife of the Rev.
W. C. Loomis, pastor of First Church, San Bernardino, Cal., and
formerly a member of Pittsburgh Conference.
Mrs. Wick was
converted in early life, and was a devout, faithful, humble Christian. She
died Wednesday morning, January 27, of acute bronchitis, suffering
severely but patiently, anxious to depart.
The burial was in
the family lot in Grandview cemetery, Beaver Falls, beside the body of her
husband. District Superintendent S. W. Corcoran
had charge of the funeral services in College Hill Church, and was
assisted by Dr. F. S. Neigh, Superintendent
of New Castle District, Erie Conference, and by the Revs.
J. H. Enlow and T. B. Anderson and by
the Rev. S. H. Pollock, of the North East
Ohio Conference, a grandson.
A long, busy life
has ended, and a faithful soul has triumphantly gone home to God.
Written
by Rev. J. K. Pollock. Deceased Wives of Preachers, Erie
Conference Journal and Yearbook, Ninety-first session, 1926, pages
613-614.
