Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir

ID: 10274
Date of birth : 1854
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1958

Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir was born at Galtastaðir farm in N. Múlasýsla on July 16, 1854. She died in Marshall, Minnesota on March 10, 1898.

Spouse: Jón Davíðsson b. in N. Þingeyjarsýsla on February 17, 1843, d. in Marshall, Minnesota on November 6, 1930. He took the name John Davidson in the west.

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 bought land in 1880 in Lincoln County. They moved to Marshall before 1885 and lived there. Jón worked at a grain mill near the town.