Aberdeen Daily American Sunday, Jan 10, 1909
AN OLD SETTLER GONE
One of the early settlers of Brown county, Mr. S. P. Morin, died Monday, January 4th. He had been a sufferer from stomach and rheumatic troubles for some years. Early in the fall, he had a severe attack of stomach trouble, but seemed to rally and to be on the way to recovery, but pneumonia and rheumatism pains made his condition worse.
The end came very peacefully. He died surrounded by his family, at 6:30 p.m., January 4th. The immediate cause of death was failure of the heart. The funeral was held on the 7th, there being services at the residence and in the Scandinavian Lutheran church of Gem township, of which the deceased was for many years a member, Rev. O. Glesne officiating. Interment was in the cemetery of the Scandinavian congregation in Gem township.
Mr. Morin was born in Sweden on the 29th of August, 1839, and was therefore approaching his seventieth year. He came to this country and settled at the place in Gem township, Brown county, where he has since resided, in 1882. He shared the early struggles of pioneer life, the “hard times” of the early ‘90s, and the later prosperity. He leaves a sorrowing family and wife, Mrs. Ingrid J. Morin, whom he married in 1867. Two sons, Noah S. and John J. B. Morin, well-known farmers of Gem, and a daughter, Alvida J. Morin, for some years a teacher in the public schools of Brown and Day counties, a graduate of the Northern Normal, and later a student of the University of Minnesota. The oldest daughter, Mrs. C. R. Lindberg, died in 1899.
~Transcribed by volunteer researcher, Kathy Smith