Stefía Stefánsdóttir

ID: 18904
Born west
Date of birth : 1880
Date of death : 1978

Stefía Sigríður Stefánsdóttir was born in Minnesota on April 15, 1880. She died in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in 1978.

Spouse: 1903 Jón Björnsson b. in Gimli, New Iceland on June 19, 1878, d. in Saskatchewan on July 12, 1945. He had the name Jon B. Jonsson in the west.

Children: No information on their children, but they raised Pálína Johnson b. June 19, 1908 who was the daughter of Jón’s brother, Kristján Jónsson, and a boy named Hallgrímur.

Stefía was the daughter of Stefán Guðni Sigurðsson and Sigríður Jóakimsdóttir, early settlers in Minnesota. Jón was the son of Björn Jónsson and Þorbjörg Björgsdóttir who came west to Canada in 1876. They settled in New Iceland. Jón and Stefía moved to the Argyle Settlement from Minnesota in 1903 and then to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1907. They bought land in the Kandahar/Dafoe settlement.