ID: 12428
Date of birth : 1879
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1967
Jón Guðmundur Ríkharðsson was born in 1879 in N. Múlasýsla. He died in Minnesota in 1867. He took the last name Richards in the west.
Spouse: September 14, 1912 Ingiríður Jónsdóttir b. 1885 in Minnesota. She had the last name Snidal in the west.
Childless.
Jón came west in 1887 with his parents, Ríkharð Jóhannsson and Herborg Sigurðardóttir. They bought land a short distance from Minneota, Minnesota. Ingiríður was the daughter of Jón Sigurðsson and Kristína Björnsdóttir. Jón and Ingiríður bought land in western Minnesota and lived there the rest of their lives.