ID: 9065
Date of birth : 1849
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1924
Sigríður Jónsdóttir was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1849. She died on June 9, 1924 in Seattle.
Spouse: Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson b. October 26, 1853 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla, d. January 26, 1926. He took the name Thorsteinn Thorsteinsson in the west.
Children: 1. Jón (John) b. 1878, d. December 16, 1895 2. Kristján b. May 9, 1883 3. Valdimar Jakob b. June 13, 1885 4. Guðbjörg Elín 5. Kristinn 6. Aðalsteinn. Another four children died in childhood.
Þorsteinn came west to Ontario, Canada in 1874 but moved west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876. Life’s road led the newlyweds to the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota in 1880. They lived there until 1914 but then sold their land to their son Valdimar and moved west to Seattle, Washington.