ID: 18897
Born west
Date of birth : 1878
Guðlaug Þorkelsdóttir: born in 1878 in Minneota, Minnesota.
Spouse: Bernard Gilliland born in Iowa; died in 1919.
Children: All born in Colorado: 1. John b. 1904 2. Elizabeth b. 1906 3. Isabelle b. 1908 4. Lillian b. 1910.
Guðlaug lived with her parents, Þorkell Ingimundarson and Sigríður Guðmundsdóttir in Lincoln County Settlement in Minnesota in 1878. They moved to the Lyon County Settlement, but after her father died, she moved with her mother Sigríður to Marshall. Guðlaug moved with her husband to Denver, Colorado just after the turn of the century. She returned to Minnesota and lived with her daughter Lillian.