ID: 8898
Single parent
Date of birth : 1876
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Lilja Þorsteinsdóttir was born in 1876 at Laugaland in Eyjafjarðarsýsla.
Spouse: 1898 Jón Jónsson b. in Húnavatnssýsla in 1871. He took the name John J. Ruthford in the west.
Children: Information missing.
Jón came west to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1873 with his parents, Jón Jónsson and Karólína Magnúsdóttir. They settled in Dane County and later, in 1881, in Columbia County. They moved from there in 1883 to N. Dakota. Lilja came west to N. Dakota with her mother, Lilja Ólafsdóttir, in 1883. Jón and Lilja moved west to the Pacific coast in 1899 and settled in Skagit County, Washington. They lived there the rest of their lives.