Jón Jónsson from Munkaþverá Photo: VÍÆ II
Guðný Eiríksdóttir Photo: VÍÆ II
Guðný Eiríksdóttir was born on January 19, 1844 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. She died on September 7, 1923 in Blaine, Washington.
Spouse: July 19, 1877 Jón Jónsson b. at Munkaþverá in Eyjafjarðarsýsla on October 9, 1852, d. December 21, 1945.
Children: 1. Anna b. January 7, 1879 2. Jón Frímann b. October 24, 1884, d. August 14, 1952.
Guðný came west to New Iceland in 1876. Jón came west to Ontario, Canada in 1875. He worked there for some time in Gravenhurst, but headed south to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the fall, he joined with the first settlers on their way to New Iceland. There he took land in the Víðirnes Settlement and named it Akur. He moved to Winnipeg with his wife and daughter in 1879 and worked as a carpenter for the first winter. They moved to Pembina, N. Dakota in the fall of 1880, settled there and built a house. They sold it and moved further west in the settlement. From there, they moved south to Grand Forks, N. Dakota in 1891 and in 1904, to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan where they lived until 1910. Then they moved west to Vancouver where they lived for two years, moved south to Blaine in Washington in 1912 and lived there until 1930. He visited Iceland that year and had, in fact, also gone there in 1909.