ID: 3401
Date of birth : 1866
Place of birth : Mýrasýsla
Ólafur Sigurðsson was born in 1866 in Mýrasýsla.
Spouse: 1) 1886 Salbjörg Friðfinnsdóttir b. 1844, d. at Betel nursing home in Gimli on June 14, 1934, they divorce. 2) Jóhanna ?? b. 1854 in Iceland.
Children: No children with Salbjörg. With Jóhanna: 1. Kristín b. 1892 2. Petrína b. 1896 3. Sigrún (Runa) b. 1901 4. Einar b. 1902.
Ólafur came west in 1886 to New Iceland. He married Salbjörg in Gimli the same year; she had come west in 1883 and settled in the Geysir settlement. They divorced after a few years, Ólafur remarried and settled in Roseau County, Minnesota before 1901. He took land in the Pohlitz Township and is listed as a farmer in 1905.