Sigfús Magnússon and Guðrún Benediktsdóttir Photo: AÓÞ 1914
Sigfús Magnússon was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla on March 19, 1845. He died on October 31, 1932 in Toppenish, Washington.
Spouse: July 29, 1876. Guðrún Emilía Benediktsdóttir b. in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1854. She died on January 26, 1913 in Duluth, Minnesota.
Children: 1. Bergþóra b. May 20, 1877 2. Þorgerður b. December 28, 1879, d. 1932 3. Leifur b. July 7, 1882 4. Hilda 5. Amy b. January 22, 1887 6. Vesta b. March 5, 1898. They also had a foster daughter, Sigurrós Guðnadóttir b. 1872, who came west with them.
Sigfús came west to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1873. In the spring of 1874, he explored the land in Nebraska and bought land near the small town of Firth, south of Lincoln. He returned the land before returning to Iceland in the autumn of 1874 to fetch his fiancée.
There was a delay in returning west, but they went to Nebraska in 1886 and settled in Long Pine. There he obtained citizenship and took land near the village. He lived there for a few years but moved to Duluth, Minnesota in 1892, where he lived for many years. A housekeeper, Guðrún Björnsdóttir b. 1834, came west with them, and in the 1920 Minnesota census, Guðrún is listed with them. Sigfús later moved west to the Pacific where his daughter Bergþóra lived.