ID: 10150
Date of birth : 1865
Place of birth : N.Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1944
Ágúst Gunnarsson was born in N. Þingeyjarsýsla on June 29, 1865. He died in Winnipeg on October 14, 1944. He was known as Ágúst G. Pálsson or Polson in the west.
Spouse: June 3, 1888 Elísabet Gísladóttir b. in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1870.
Children: 1. Jóhanna 2. Elisabet Hazeltine 3. Archibald Jón 4. Florence Nightingale 5. Margrét 6. Ágústa Sigríður 7. Robert Wyatt 8. Boy, d. died at a few days old 9. Lína Byron 10. Fjóla Alexandra 11. Jóhann Konráð.
Ágúst came west to New Iceland with his parents in 1879. He moved with them to Winnipeg after a number of years and lived there the longest. Elísabet emigrated west to Winnipeg with her mother, the widow Elísabet Þuríður Jónsdóttir, and siblings in 1876.