ID: 2253
Date of birth : 1835
Place of birth : Borgarfjarðarsýsla
Guðrún Jónsdóttir was born in Borgarfjarðarsýsla on December 7, 1836.
Spouse: 1860 Steingrímur Grímsson b. in Borgarfjarðarsýsla on August 20, 1831, d. in N. Dakota on October 24, 1908.
Children: 1. Jón b. 1862 did not come west 2. Grímur b. 1863 3. Snæbjörn b. 1866 4. Kristín b. 1869 came west in 1885 5. Steinunn Guðrún b. 1871 6. Karítas b. 1875 5. 7. Guðmundur b. November 21, 1878. 6. 8. Guðrún b. N. Dakota. Five of their children died in infancy.
They came west to Boston in the United States in 1882 and moved the same year to the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota. They lived with Grímur Þórðarson for four years, but then took land in the Fjalla Settlement in 1886.