In 1854, David Sands Moon and Mary (Wiltse) Moon moved from New York to Delta Township, section 27, with seven of their nine children and built this cabin in 1860 after their first cabin burned. Their eldest son, Andrew Wiltse Moon, married Fanny Jane Mehitable Johnson in 1865, inherited Moon Farm, and with her had three children in the cabin; Fanny Moon, its longest resident, also became a published poet. Their second daughter, Lizzie Amelia Moon, was born in 1868 without the ability to hear, graduated from the Michigan School of the Deaf in Flint, and taught other students who were also hearing impaired. Darius Moon left the family farm to become a building contractor in 1877 and an architect in 1889, designing homes for prominent Lansing residents including Edward Sparrow, founder of Sparrow Hospital. Another son, Martin, was remembered in a family anecdote about the dangers and humor of farm life when a ram knocked him over. David Moon's eldest daughter, Lydia Grissel, married Darius Parsons in 1855, and he joined the 14th Michigan Infantry in 1862, serving in many Civil War engagements, most notably Sherman's March to the Sea.