Jakobína Sigurbjörnsdóttir Photo: VÍÆ I
Jakobína Sigurbjörnsdóttir was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on October 17, 1883.
Spouse: August 14, 1904 Ísak Jónsson b. March 29, 1866 in N. Múlasýsla, d. in Seattle on October 13, 1949.
Children: 1. Kári b. August 17, 1905 2. Ingólfur b. August 4, 1907 3. Konráð Ari b. October 22, 1910 4. María Guðrún b. July 3, 1913, d. July 31, 1942 5. Haraldur Björn b. July 18, 1911 6. Jóhann Ísak b. November 24, 1915 7. Stephan Jón.
Jakobína came west in 1889 with her parents, Sigurbjörn Jóhannsson and María Jónsdóttir. They settled in the Argyle settlement and there Jakobína grew up. She was 16 when she moved to Winnipeg where she graduated as a teacher in 1904. She moved west to the Pacific Ocean with her husband who became a builder in Seattle. Jakobína was a poet, more about her in Íslensk arfleifð (Icelandic heritage) below.