ID: 11464
Date of birth : 1824
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1898
Jón Þorsteinsson was born on November 4, 1824 in N. Múlasýsla. He died in Minnesota on November 26, 1898.
Spouse: Kristín Jónsdóttir b. c1823 in N. Múlasýsla.
Children: 1. Kristín Jónsdóttir b. in N. Múlasýsla in 1855.
Jón and Kristín came west to Minnesota in 1878 where their daughter and her husband Jósep Arngrímsson had moved. Jósep took land in Lincoln, built a house for himself and his family, and later built a house on his land for his parents-in-law.