Jóhann Hólm Sigmundsson

ID: 10100
Date of birth : 1871
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1954

Jóhann Hólm Sigmundsson: Born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on January 4, 1871. He died on April 14, 1954 in Lyon County in Minnesota. He took the name John Jonathan in the west.

Spouse: June 25, 1902 Jórunn Guðjónsdóttir b. March 24, 1885. She died in 1974.

Children: 1. Imogene b. January 24, 1902 2. Hólmríður Solveig b. 1904 3. Virgil b. April 30, 1906  4.  Emil Magnús b. February 4, 1908 5. George Theodore b. 1909. 6. Lilja b. November 20, 1910 7. Elinor (Eleanor) b. June 23, 1912 8. Julian Howard b. June 13, 1913  9. Erwin Hamilton b. August 5, 1914. 10. Allen Wilson b. November 30, 1916; d. August 9, 1918 11. Harold Allen b. 1917, d. 1944 in Germany 12. Dóra b. 1919  13. June b. 1920 14. Robert Boyd b. 1921 15. Martha b. 1922. 16. Otto Wayne b. November 8, 1924 17. Donald Vernon b. December 9, 1925 18. Ralph Warren b. May 2, 1927

Jóhann came west with his parents in 1875 to Rhinelander, Wisconsin. They moved to the Lyon County Settlement in 1878 and Jóhann worked on his father’s land. He later bought his own land in the Lincoln County Settlement. Jórunn was one year old when she emigrated with her parents in 1887.