ID: 8202
Date of birth : 1854
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1938
Ágúst Jónasson was born in 1854 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. Died in 1938.
Spouse: 1877 Björg Guðnadóttir b. 1851 in Þingeyjarsýsla, d. 1913 in Saskatchewan.
Children: 1. Guðni Axel Ágústsson b. 1879 2. Ingibjörg Karólína b. 1880 3. Jón Egill b. 1881
Ágúst and Björg came west to the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota in 1887 with Ingibjörg and Jón Egill. Guðni Axel came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1900. Ágúst took land in Garðar but they moved from there in 1899 to Brown, Manitoba. They were there until 1906 but then moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan and took land with their son near Mozart.