OBITUARY: Simon Engebretson, c1848-1926, Mitchell County, Iowa




                       SIMON ENGEBRETSON IS DEAD
                     Former Cedar Township Resident 
                      Passed Away at Independence
                         Burial at Rock Creek

Simon Engebretson was born at Hadeland, Norway, 78 years ago.  He came to
America when about twenty years of age and located temporarily in the Rock
Creek community, this county.  Later he bought a farm in Cedar township, on
which place he lived for some years.

In 1881 he married Miss Martha Dammen of Cedar township.  He was brought up
in the Lutheran faith and was a member of the Rock Creek Lutheran church
while living there.

Thirty-two years ago he was taken ill and was moved to the hospital at
Independence, in which place he died May 9, 1926, death resulting from
apoplexy.

The only near relatives surviving him are a daughter, Maud, and a son Edward,
both of Osage.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. O.C. Myhre in the Champion
undertaking parlors Tuesday at 10 a.m., and interment was in the Rock Creek
Lutheran cemetery.


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