ID: 10273
Date of birth : 1843
Place of birth : N. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1940
Jón Davíðsson was born at Máná in N. Þingeyjarsýsla on February 17, 1843. He died in Marshall, Minnesota on November 6, 1930. He took the name John Davidson in the west.
Spouse: Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir b. July 16, 1854, d. in Marshall, Minnesota on March 10, 1898.
Children: 1. Marsalína b. 1867 2. Helga Stefanía b. April 28, 1879 3. Jón Ólafur b. c 1881, d. 1882 4. Ólafur (Olaf) b. March 23, 1885 5. Kristján Björn b. July 29, 1887, d. in California in 1926.
They came west to Minnesota in 1879 and lived with friends until they settled in Lincoln County in 1880. They moved from there to Marshall before 1885. Jón worked at a grain mill near the town.