Mary Sheppard was the offspring of an itinerant minister who preached sedition to the uneducated masses.
In 1850, he became an itinerant minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
He joined the Virginia Annual Conference in 1829, serving as an itinerant minister, traveling through the southern states.
His choice to lead a "life of simplicity" meant sacrifices for his family, as did his frequent travels as an itinerant minister.
Their city was visited by a Scandinavian itinerant minister with a "signs and wonders" approach to Christianity.
After his father, an itinerant minister, died, he was raised by a struggling single mother.
But his real conversion occurred under the influence of the Rev. George Benedum, a noted early itinerant minister.
In 1925 he embarked on a 30-year career as an itinerant evangelical minister.
Martha's father, an itinerant pre-Campbellite minister, moved the family to western New York, where he died when Martha was 18 years old.
After being itinerant minister in Ireland for six years he became in 1810 pastor of a small congregation at Ilfracombe.