ID: 14373
Date of birth : 1848
Place of birth : S. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1933
Steinunn Magnúsdóttir was born in S. Múlasýsla on February 6, 1848. She died in Minnesota on October 1, 1933.
Spouse: October 7, 1868 Sigbjörn Sigurðsson b. December 31, 1841 in Vopnafjörður in N. Múlasýsla, d. January 5, 1937. He took the last name Hofteig in the west.
Children: 1. Guðný b. October 12, 1871 2. Guðríður b. 1874 3. Kristjana Solveig b. 1876 4. Halldór Benedikt b. September 27, 1878 5. Stefán S. b. 1881 6. John Þórarinn b. 1883, d. 1891 7. Margrét Sigurbjörg b. January 15, 1888.
They came west in 1878 and bought land in the Lyon County Settlement in Minnesota.