Sigurbjörg Árnadóttir

ID: 18876
Born west
Date of birth : 1885
Date of death : 1969

Sigurbjörg Árnadóttir was born in 1885 in Minnesota. She died in Minneota in 1969. She took the first name Bertha in the west.

Spouse: June 16, 1913 Árni Árnason b. in N. Múlasýsla on May 7, 1883, d. in Lyon County on September 10, 1935. He took the name Arni (Ernest) Magnusson in the west.

Children: Josephine Sigurbjörg b. May 22, 1914 2. Árni Ellsworth b. June 26, 1910 3. Margaret Sigríður b. January 8, 1919 4. Phyllis b. 1922 5. Elizabeth b. 1924 6. Dorothy b. 1926.

Árni came west to Minnesota in 1889 with his parents, Árni Magnússon and Sigurbjörg Árnadóttir. Sigurbjörg was the daughter of Árni Sigvaldur Jónsson who had come west with his father, Jón Jónsson from Hraunfell in Vopnafjörður in 1880, and Sigríður Vigfúsdóttir who had come west in 1878 with her parents, Vigfús Jóefsson and Sigurborg Hjálmarsdóttir at Leifsstaðir in Vopnafjörður.  Árni and Sigurbjörg lived in Minneota, Minnesota.