[4] In 1926, while working at the Federal Reserve Bank, he met Edna Mae Deakyne (May 20, 1906 – June 5, 1992) at a church social.
[7] The first Mercer Boys book was based on a trip Wyckoff made with some rather well-to-do friends who had a ship at Bayshore, New York in 1925.
[7][9] After the ten Mercer Boys books, Wyckoff wrote the four-book Mystery Hunters series.
As newlyweds, Wyckoff and Edna went to the southern mountains, first in Arkansas and then in Kentucky, as Sunday School Missionaries, filling this post for twelve years.
It is the account of a young, newly ordained man from Philadelphia, serving for one year as a missionary in the rural and isolated communities in the hills.
He faces and answers various challenges that cause him to decide what his calling actually is, what his values are, where love truly lies, and ultimately what is most important in life.
Virginia affirmed that the incident referred to was based on a true event, and questioned whether her father would have altered that part of the story or not.
At the instigation of fans of Capwell Wyckoff and through Virginia's kindness, Enduring Foundations was typeset and published in 2001 in a limited print run of twenty copies.
Wyckoff wrote two unpublished Christian plays between 1927 and 1929, most likely for a Sunday School class or church production.
[11] In the family archives there are several unpublished Christian short stories, all of which were written when Wyckoff was the pastor in Columbia, Kentucky.
[11] Family archives also include several unpublished adventure short stories, also written when Wyckoff was pastor in Columbia, Kentucky.