----Source: Greenwood Gleaner 3/9/1939

SWEN WELLEN PASSES AWAY

Swen Wellen passed away at General Hospital at Winnipeg, Sunday Feb. 12, 1939 at 5:00 a.m. after a lingering illness caused by an injury while employed in a cedar pole and pulpwood camp near Sprague Aug. 12, 1937.

Following the accident, which injured his back, he entered a hospital at Two Harbors, where he was until Nov. 24, 1937, when he was taken to the General Hospital at Winnipeg, where he has been bedridden since, not being able to turn in bed without help.

Deceased was born at Whitehall, Wis., April 3, 1876. In 1899, when he was 23 years old, he came to Roseau County. He homesteaded in the Mud Creek Community. On July 2nd he was joined in wedlock to Anna Hendrickson. To this union were born 9 children, Lillie (Mrs. Christ Peterson), west of town Clarence, Ordean, Ilman, Ella, Molly, Alice, Lawrence and Ruth. All reside in Roseau with the exception of Mrs. Peterson and Ordean, who live south of Salol.

Besides his wife and children he is survived by 3 brothers and 2 sisters, Jelmar Wellen of Moose township Louis Wellen, Whitehall, Wis., Rev. Conrad Wellen of Havre, Mont. Mrs. Hilda Hartson, of Greenwood, Clark County, Wis. and Millie Hoff of Longmont, Colo. His father died 34 years ago and his mother about 9 years ago.

In the Mud Creek community, Mr. Wellen was a member of the board of supervisors and also a member of the school board. In 1925 they moved to Roseau, but Mr. Wellen was a regular Daniel Boone and liked the life of the frontier and he went to the Sprague territory, where game was more plentiful. There he often served as a guide for hunting parties. At regular intervals he would come to visit his family.

Funeral services will be held Friday from the Moe Lutheran Church at 2:00 p.m., with Rev. A. C. Rykken officiating. Interment will be in Rose Cemetery. (Northern Minnesota Leader, Roseau, Minn.)