Martha Clausen (née Rasmussen), wife of Rev. Clausen, died and was buried at the Luther Valley cemetery.

The evidence

• “Rev. Clausen was twice united in marriage ; his first wife, Martha Clausen, nee Rasmussen, died November 8, 1846, and is buried at the Luther Valley cemetery. She was the first minister's wife that died among the Norwegian Lutherans of America.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 529 / book p. 1014

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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