Bjarni Einar Guðmundsson was born in N. Múlasýsla in 1871. He died in Lincoln County, Minnesota on May 9, 1945.
Spouse: Stefanía Einarsdóttir b. August 21, 1872 in N. Múlasýsla, d. October 2, 1960 in Yellow Medicine County in Minnesota. She took the name Fanny Gudmundson in the west.
Children: 1. Einar B. b. July 21, 1893 2. Hallfríður (Frida) Ingibjörg b. December 8, 1895 3. Herdís (Daisy) Guðrún b. April 13, 1898 4. Guðmundur b. February 25, 1900, d. April 8, 1986 5. Kristín (Christine) b. June 25, 1901 6. Sigrún Bergþóra b. February 14, 1902 7. Njáll Þorvaldur (Walter) b. October 7, 1903 8. Albert Newton b. February 19, 1908.
Bjarni came west in 1888 with his parents, Guðmundur Guðmundsson and Ingibjörg Bjarnadóttir, and his siblings. They settled in Lincoln County, Minnesota. It is said that Bjarni was engaged to Stefanía when he emigrated and may have encouraged Einar, her father, to move west. That was the case, Stefanía came to Minnesota in 1892 and stayed with Bjarni when her parents, Einar Jónsson and Hallfríður Þorgrímsdóttir, continued west to N. Dakota. Bjarni and Stefanía lived the longest in Lincoln County.