Hallgrímur Guðmundsson was born in N. Múlasýsla in 1836. He died in 1891 in N. Dakota.
Spouse: Guðrún Margrét Guðmundsdóttir b. in N. Múlasýsla on May 24, 1841, d. May 1, 1908 in the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota.
Children: 1. Björg b. November 11, 1864 2. Þorbjörg b. September 2, 1871 3. Kristín b. 1873, d. in New Iceland in 1877 4. Sigríður b. 1876 d. same year in New Iceland. 5. Jón (John) b. November 22, 1877 in New Iceland 6. Guðmundur b. in New Iceland in 1880, d. in Mountain, N. Dakota 1881. Hallgrímur had a son, Jón, in 1866 with Elísabet Guðmundsdóttir.
They came west across the sea in 1876 to Winnipeg, Manitoba. They lived in New Iceland but homesteaded in the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota in 1881. With them was Guðrún’s father, Guðmundur Guðmundsson, b. 1809.