The death of Simon Larsen occurred at his home at Orum on last Thursday, the 6th. He had been in poor health for a number of years but able to be around and attend to business most of the time, though he had given up farming turning over the management of his fine farm, just north of the Orum store a short distance, to his sons. He was a native of Denmark, coming to America, landing at New York, in 1866, and came from there to Chicago where he remained for something more than a year when he came to Omaha and later to this county, locating a homestead in Lincoln precinct in 1867.

April 10, 1867 he and Maren Kirstine Rasmussen were married at Omaha, and located on the land he had homesteaded where they have since resided and reared a family of seven children., two others having died in infancy. They are: Mrs. R. X. Rasmuslsen, Mrs. J. P Iversen, Miss Louise, R. L. and L. E. Larsen, all residing in the vicinity of Orum, Mrs. H. C. Raymond, of Cedar Bluffs and Mrs. Robert Petersen, of Fremont.

Funeral service was held at the family home on Saturday at one o’clock P.M. Rev. Ullvelden of Omaha preaching the funeral discourse and the remain were laid at rest in the Orum Cemetery.

The Editor of the Enterprise experiences a feeling in the nature of personal bereavement over the reported death of his friend, Simon Larsen, with whom he has maintained friendly relation for near a half century of intimate acquaintance. The best that can be said of any person is that “he was an honest man,” and that can be truthfully said of Simon.

**The Lincoln Cemetery records have a Simon Larson buried in Row G No. 16

~~~Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clipping on file at the Blair Public Library.~~~