ID: 13712
Date of birth : 1871
Place of birth : Gullbringusýsla
Date of death : 1946
Jón Jónsson was born at Görðum at Álftanes in Gullbringusýsla November 26, 1871. He died in Wynyard, Saskatchewan in 1946. He took the last name Garðar (Gardar) in the west.
Spouse: Guðrún Sveinbjörnsdóttir b. November 1, 1881 in Gullbringusýsla, d. in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in 1918.
Children: 1. Guðrún Margrét b. 1900 2. Pálína Ragna b. 1902, d. 1903.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1903 and later moved further west to the Lakes Settlement in Saskatchewan. Pálína died on the way across the Atlantic.