Elísabet Ásgrímsdóttir

ID: 7795
Date of birth : 1879
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1961

Elísabet Ásgrímsdóttir was born in 1879 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. She died at the Borg Nursing Home in Mountain, N. Dakota on April 6, 1961. She took the first name Theodora (Dora) in the west.

Spouse: November 2, 1896 Árni Helgason b. October 8, 1876 in Mýrasýsla, d. at Borg on November 17, 1953. He took the name Earnest Goodman in the west.

Children: 1. Ásgrímur Franklin b. 1898, d. 1975 2. Helga b. 1899, d. 1900 3. Jónas b. 1904, d. 1969 4. Sigurlaug (Lauga) b. 1905, d. 1976 5. Guðmundur (Mundi) b. 1908 6. Lillian b. 1910 7. Walter b. 1913 8. Caroline b. 1916 9. William b. 1917, d.  10. Frederick b. July 14, 1920 11. Evelyn b. 1923, d. 1962 12. Helen 13. George.

Árni came west in 1881 with his parents, Helgi Guðmundsson and Helga Eyvindsdóttir. Elísabet came west with her father, Ásgrím Sigurðsson, and brother Benedikt in 1887. Árni and Elísabet moved to the Mouse River community and lived near Upham, McHenry County, N. Dakota.