Story of Agnes | was born in the mountains near Myerstown in
1845. Her parents were Peter Bennethum and Sarah Heffelfinger,
her grandparents were Peter Bennethum and his wife Kate Moyer,
and her great-grandparents were Johannes Andreas Benedum and
Marie Barbara Minnich. When she was a very old woman, Agnes's
children insisted on recording the story of her life. And a
fascinating life it was! When she was a young girl her family.
along with her father's brother's family, moved to Ohio. She
describes the trip in vivid detail. They took two Conestoga
wagons crammed full of their possessions. She tells of
provisions the wagons had for camping enroute, such as boards on
the side that pulled up for sleeping. In Ohio all the women
spoke the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect her mother didn't know it
very well. She grew lonely and homesick and took to her bed,
telling her husband she was not getting out of bed until he
promised to take her back to Pennsylvania, They comprised and
went to Illinois where her father's cousin o