In the early days of Texas there lived a man by the name of John F. Roberts, and there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. This man located in Wise county. In 1897 Mrs. Peppers and Mrs. Hogan began the first holiness meetings that this family had ever attended. Some of the boys were sanctified in this meeting, and one by one they swept into the experience, until the seven boys were all sanctified and called to preach. Two of them have gone around the world preaching, while some are pastors, some evangelists, and one is superintendent of a rescue home [for wayward girls].

The Great Amandaville Revival of 1910

The greatest revival meeting that was ever held in this part of the country was held last week in a large tent at Holy Grove near Bakerton by the two brothers John and Ernest Roberts and their wives, traveling evangelists, from Pilot Point, Texas.


They preached nine days, mornings and nights, had one hundred and eleven conversions an a great many backsliders renewed their allegiance to the Master and most all the old grudges between neighbors and church members fixed up, and everything is now moving along lovely and we trust that it will last.

These preachers have been traveling and preaching for the last twelve years and sure go at their work with a vim worthy of the cause. They have traveled and preached nearly all over the United States and a part of Japan and Africa. They report this is one of the most successful meeting they have ever held.

As an appreciation of their services in this community the people made them up two hundred and twenty-five dollars and asked them to come again at some time in the future.