Jacob’s Buttons - The Farmwald Story

The story of an Anabaptist family’s migration from Alsace, Germany, to Holmes County, Ohio. Eight-year-old Jakob Vordemwald, his mother Magdalena, and aunts Katherina and Elizabeth cross the Atlantic with only an old streamer trunk, a prayerbook, and a pocketful of dreams.

Follow the family’s adventures through the years—from 1674 to 1904.