Kvam, Nord Trondelag, Norway is a small parish north of Trondheim and Verdal.

Ole took his one remaining son, Olgar, and moved to Otter Tail County, Minnesota. In Minnesota, the widower met Tina ( also “Thine”) Oksness who was also a Norwegian immigrant. They were married in 1887 and had four children, Anna Marie (b.1888), Syvert (b.1889, died at birth), Clara (b.1891, died at age 14), and Arthur (b.1897).

They moved to Washington in the early 1900s. The Moe’s daughter Clara died after a fall in February 1906 at the age of 14. The family settled near Silvana and had to deal with another tragedy soon after their arrival in 1906. Tina was gathering eggs which the chickens laid in the log jams in the Stillaguamish River. She slipped and fell into the river and drowned. Daughter Marie was 18 yrs. old and son Arthur was only 9 when they lost their mother