ID: 5358
Date of birth : 1854
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Björn Guðmundsson was born in Húnavatnssýsla October 11, 1854. Nupdal vestra.
Spouse: 1977 Agnes Teitsdóttir b. 1850 in Húnavatnssýsla.
Children: 1. Elísabet b. 1878 2. Stefán 3. Sigurbjörn Ingimundur 4. Hólmfríður 5. Rannveig 6. Guðrún Jakobína 7. Guðmundur. One child died in infancy.
They emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1884 an onwards the same year to Mountain Settlement in N. Dakota. They settled on land owned by Guðmundur, Björn’s brother and stayed there for four years. Björn then bought land and lived there.