Many thanks for your responses and accounts. It seems as if Gipsy/Gypsy Smith and Smith Wigglesworth, both born in England at the same time and dying at the same time, may well have been one and the same gentlmen... or, as the account below suggests, not so gentle. Gypsy Smith, receiving salvation at a camp or tent meeting in England as a youth, went on to lead a world wide ministry, that continues today. Many present day groups of Pentecostals base their teachings on work of Smith Wigglesworth, some say the father of Pentecostalism... which, as we know, is a faith that is sweeping the United States, and the world, attracting huge crowds in this century. I am interested in accounts ... connecting some Welsh, English and Irish family lines, with itinerant preaching.. among the possible familial connections are names such as Dillard, Daugherty, Dunnahoo, Irving, Mullins, Robertson, Roberts, and Osborne. Does anyone else have an account or remembrance of a camp or tent meeting and who was the preacher? ******************8 From:<[email protected]> Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 14:06:34 +0300 Travellers & Gypsies/ Preachers/ Peddlers/ Tinkers In the South I have a Lorenzo Dow Ball. Smith Wigglesworth that was said to raised people from the dead was an Englishman. I have read stories about him from people who were English. He boarded at one elderly lady's house, but she did not take to him because he was very rude. I have also read that his teachings were not always correct. ************** From: Eagle Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 11:34:46 -0500 "Oh I forgot to mention. The Person who carved the Gypsy flower was no in this line. He was a Woodroof (that it the correct spelling) His father was an itinerant preacher and they travelled around in a covered wagon preaching. This was in Tennessee also. In tracing his roots I find his father rumoured to be married to Cherokee and having come to Tennessee with a band of travelling carpenters in early 1800's. That's all I know now." ******************************* From: [email protected] I was surprised to hear that Smith Wigglesworth was a Gypsy...............What a man of God..............He even raised the dead. I have enjoyed his ministry tapes that are in our Church Library...................very very interesting!!!!!!!!!!! ******************** Has anyone else every known of this amazing ability performed by Smith Wigglesworth or any other preachers or miracle workers? ******************************* -----Original Message----- Looking for history, stories, accounts of gypsies/preachers/peddlers/tinkers in the South... Does anyone have a Lorenzo Dow, or LD in the family? Did anyone's family go to a campmeeting of Gypsy Smith Wigglesworth? (1860-1947) **************************** ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.