Sikes, Henry N

Sikes, Henry N.

a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Fulton County, Pa., in 1833. He. was converted in early youth, and began to preach in his nineteenth year. He united with the Baltimore Conference in 1854, and served in the regular ministerial work (with the exception of two years 1861 and 1862 when he acted as chaplain of the U.S. Penitentiary at Washington, D.C.) until his death, June 20, 1865. Mr. Sikes had a vigorous and well stored mind, and was untiring, industrious, and of unflinching courage. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1866, p. 17.