Moe Church

Wisconsin · United States · Execution site

Local account says the church burned in the early 1900s with more than thirty people inside. A fire like that would be in every newspaper in the state.

Moe Church near Clear Lake, Wisconsin, and its cemetery, have a hard reputation locally, and the reason given is a fire.

The story is that in the early 1900s the church burned to the ground with more than thirty people inside.

That has to be doubted. A church fire killing thirty people in Wisconsin in that period would have been front page news across the state and the country, would appear in every county history, and would have a memorial. None of that exists.

The church was rebuilt, according to the account, and townspeople have more to say about the cemetery.

Moe was a Norwegian Lutheran congregation, one of hundreds founded across western Wisconsin by immigrants from Norway in the second half of the nineteenth century, and the names on the stones are theirs.

The church and cemetery are private and in use.

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Where is Moe Church located?

Moe Church is in Wisconsin, United States.