Elísabet Geirhjartardóttir

ID: 9140
Date of birth : 1874
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1922

Elísabet Þorbjörg Geirhjartardóttir was born on July 10, 1874 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. She died on December 12, 1922 in N. Dakota.

Spouse: 1894 Stefán Stefánsson b. in Húnavatnssýsla on June 21, 1870, d. in Upham, N. Dakota on January 29, 1952.

Children: 1. Einar b. February 25, 1897 2. Magnús Trausti b. December 2, 1898 3. Gunnar Jóhann b. July 22, 1899, d. May 6, 1919 4. Guðrún b. 1900, d. young child 5. Oddur Skafti b. October 26, 1901, d. 1939 6. Joseph Loftur b. September 4, 1903 7. Höskuldur Guðjón b. October 10, 1906 8. Margrét Stefanía b. October 27, 1907, d. March 3, 1982 9. Hildigunnur Hólmfríður b. December 3, 1909 10. Guðfinna Bergþóra b. November 6, 1913.

Elísabet came west in 1881 with her parents, Geirhjörtur Kristjánsson and Guðfinna Jónsdóttir, and siblings. They settled in the Garðar Settlement. Stefán came west to Winnipeg in 1888 and moved from there to the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota. Elísabet and Stefán moved to the Mouse River Settlement in 1896.