ID: 14633
Date of birth : 1877
Place of birth : S. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1932
Metúsalem Eyjólfsson was born in 1877 in S. Múlasýsla. He died in an accident in Massillon, Ohio on December 7, 1932. He took the name Matthew Nicholson in the west.
Spouse: María Kristrún Þorsteinsdóttir b. December 29, 1886 in Lyon County in Minnesota.
Children: 1. Raymond Ellsworth b. September 20, 1907 2. Hope b. January 2, 1909.
Metúsalem came west to Minnesota in 1879 with his parents, Eyjólfur Nikulásson and Þorbjörg Jósepsdóttir. They settled in Lyon County where Matthew grew up. He moved to Marshall and worked in a wheat mill until 1912. They family then moved to Massillon, Ohio.