ID: 11867
Date of birth : 1861
Place of birth : N. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1938
Jón Jóhannesson was born at Kelduhverfi in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1861. Dird in 1938. He had the last name Hrappsted in the west.
Spouse: 1) Margrét Jónsdóttir b. in Vopnafjörður in 1861. 2) Abigael Ólafsdóttir b. 1880 in Þistilfjörður
Children: With first wife: 1. Ottó b. 1886 2. Einar Sigurður b. 1888. With second wife: 1. Þóra 2. Tryggvi 3. Valdimar 4. Óli 5. Friðrik 6. Karl 7. Jóhannes Hermann.
Jón lived with his parents at Hrappsstaðir in Vopnafjörður. He identified himself with that place in the West. He came west in 1893 and first lived in Winnipeg and the Argyle settlement. He moved to the Hóla settlement and stayed there for a year but left in 1899 and took land in the Swan Valley settlement (Álftárdalsbyggð).