Christianity • Protestantism Lucy F. Farrow (1851–1911) was an African American holiness pastor who was instrumental in the early foundations of Pentecostalism.
She was the first African American person to be recorded as having spoken in tongues, after attending the meetings of Charles Fox Parham, and is credited for introducing William J. Seymour to this understanding.
[1] Farrow was the niece of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass and born into slavery in Norfolk, Virginia in 1851.
[2] Later in 1906, when William Seymour became the pastor of a Holiness church in Los Angeles, he sent for Farrow to join him in what would become known as the Azusa Street Revival.
After eventually returning to Los Angeles, then later to Houston, Farrow contracted tuberculosis and died in 1911.