ID: 14973
Date of birth : 1886
Place of birth : S. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1976
Þóra Gísladóttir was born on September 10, 1886 in S. Múlasýsla. She died in Minneapolis on March 21, 1976.
Spouse: Edward L. Ledding of Norwegian descent, b. in Wisconsin on March 20, 1887, d. 1974 in Minneapolis.
Children: 1. Leonard b. October 25, 1911 2. Dorothy b. June 28, 1913 3. Willard b. 1915 4. Ralph b. January 12, 1917 5. Robert b. October 6, 1918 6. Martha b. August 12, 1920 7. Albert b. May 24, 1923.
Þóra came west in 1887 with her parents, Gísli Jónsson and Kristín Björnsdóttir, who settled in the Akra Settlement in N. Dakota. In the Census of 1900, she was a housekeeper for Ólafur Jóhannsson and family in the Akra Settlement. She and Edward lived their married lives in Minnesota.