Simon Aaneson
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| Name at Enlist | Simon Aaneson |
| Birth Name | Simon Aanensen Hommen |
| Other Names | Annenson, Arneson, Aanerson, Onn, Aaneson |
| Lived | 20 Apr 1823 – 20 Aug 1862 |
| Birth Place | Hommen, Hægebostad parish, Vest-Agder |
| Birth Country | Norway |
| Resident of Muster-In | Winneshiek County, IA |
| Company at Enlistment | K |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 11 Feb 1862 |
| Cause of Death | Disease |
| Death Location | Camp Dennison, OH |
| Burial Location | Spring Grove Cem, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH, Grave #877 |
| Mother | Anna Aanensdatter |
| Mother Lived | ca 1778- |
| Father | Aanen Syvertsen Hommen |
| Father Lived | ca 1779- |
| Immigration | 1859 |
| Spouse | Anna Pedersdatter Egeland |
| Spouse Lived | 24 Feb 1822- |
| Married On | 30 Sep 1844 |
| Marriage Location | Hægebostad parish, Vest-Agder, Norway |
Simon Aanensen Hommen emigrated from Hægebostad parish with his wife and family May 9, 1859, and was in Winneshiek County, IA, on the 1860 Census as Simon Onn.
Simon Aaneson joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company K. The company called itself “Clausen’s Guards” in honor of the 15th’s first Chaplain, Claus L. Clausen. Most of the company was recruited from Scandinavian communities in Minnesota and Iowa, with the rest from Wisconsin.
The army listed Aaneson as living in Winneshiek County, IA, age 39, and married. He enlisted for three years on January 26, 1862, in Winneshiek County, and mustered at Madison, WI, on February 11, 1862, as a Private (Menig). He was sick in the general hospital in Farmington, MS, on July 28, 1862. He transferred to a hospital at Corinth, MS, and died of disease at Camp Dennison, OH, on August 20, 1862. He was buried in National Cemetery there.
Anna and Simon’s family included children born in Norway: Anne Marie (1844), Ingeborg/Emily (1847), Aanon (1848), Peter Andreas (1850), Aaselena/Oline (1852), Tobias (1854), and Andreas/Andrew (1858). Simon (1860) and Anne (1862) were born in Iowa. Anna married Ole Oleson and was living in Silver Lake, Worth County, IA, in 1870 with children using the last name Simonson.
Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, box 76-12; Regimental Muster and Descriptive Rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin. Adjutant General’s Office, vol. 20, p. 142; Det Femtende Regiment Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett, 1894, B. Anundsen, Decorah, IA, p. 619; Nordmaendene i Amerika, Martin Ulvestad, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p. 266; Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion, Wm. DeLoss Love, 1866, Church and Goodman, Chicago, p. 1082; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p. 316; Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1879-1903; digitalarkivet.no; 1860 Census Roll: M653_345, Page: 988, Family History Library Film: 803345, 1870 Census Roll: M593_427, Page: 453A, Family History Library Film: 545926, ancestry.com; “Norwegian Immigrants 1850 and later”, database, NAGCNL, #43693.