ID: 12596
Date of birth : 1849
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1898
Eyjólfur Jónsson: Born in Hjarðarhaga in N. Múlasýsla in 1849. He took the name Snædal or Snidal in the west. He died in 1898.
Spouse: Karólína Soffía Benediktsdóttir born in the same sýsla in 1856. She died in 1947.
Children: 1) Halldóra b. 1876 2) Jón 3) Guðlaug 4) Hafsteinn 5) Baldur 6) Lilja Jónína 7) Jenny Violet.
They sailed west in 1876 and stayed in New Iceland until 1883 before moving to the Argyle Settlement.