Simon Olsen Moen

Burial record:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154074544/simon-moen

Simon Moen, one of the early settlers in Badger Valley, Sheldon township, was born in Telemarken, Norway, in 1850. His wife, Asloug Vraa, being born in the same district in September of the same year.

After settling in Badger Valley, this county, Mr. Moen devoted himself to farming and improving his property and continued to be thus occupied up to the time of his death. His wife, who survives him, now resides in Houston.

Their daughter Anna was educated in a district school in Yucatan township, this county. She was married Jan. 30, 1900, to Henry H. Houge and has seven children as of this date.

[source: "History of Houston County, Minnesota" by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Published 1919, page 251]