ID: 7258
Date of birth : 1825
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Date of death : 1885
Jón Ólafsson was born in Húnavatnssýsla in 1825. He died in N. Dakota in 1885.
Spouse: Ragnheiður Jóhannsdóttir b. in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1835.
Children: 1. Guðrún b. 1866 2. Sigurbjörg b. 1869 3. Sigurður b. 1873.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1883 and moved in the same year to N. Dakota. They took land southwest of Hallson. Jón died there after two years. After several years of hardship, Ragnheiður moved north to Winnipeg, where her daughters had already arrived. Sigurður moved north to Winnipeg in 1896, and from there he made his way north to New Iceland.