Rósa Pálsdóttir

ID: 12221
Date of birth : 1860
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1940

Rósa Pálsdóttir was born in 1860 in N. Múlasýsla. She died in Minnesota on October 6, 1940.

Spouse: Sigurrín Vigfússon b. October 4, 1857 in N. Múlasýsla, d. August 6, 1940. He took the name Sigurin Josephson in Minnesota.

Children: 1. Frank Sigurin b. 1883 2. Sigurin Lilliendal b. February 16, 1885 3. Sigfinnur b. December 22, 1886 4. Hermann Sigurin b. February 16, 1889 5. Pétur b. April 3, 1890 6. Kristín (Christine) Rósa Josefson b. 1892. 7. Herbert Newton b. December 7, 1894 8. Bertha b. 1897 9. George William b. February 22, 1899 10. Joseph S. R. b. October 27, 1901.

Sigurín came west with his parents, Vigfús Jósefsson and his wife Sigurborg Hjálmarsdóttir, in 1878. They moved to Lincoln County, Minnesota where Sigurín lived the longest. Rósa was from the well-known Hákonarstaðir family, the daughter of Páll Pétursson. She came west to Minnesota in 1878 with her mother, Sigríður Vigfúsdóttir.