ID: 19389
Date of birth : 1851
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1934
Gísli Árnason was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1851. He died in Morden, Manitoba in 1934.
Spouse: Ephemía Indriðadóttir b. 1851, came west as a widow.
Children: 1. Margrét b. 1875 2. Ingibjörg 3. Children did not go west, as far as it is known.
Gísli came west to the Akra Settlement in N. Dakota around 1890 where his brothers Jóhannes and Ólafur had gone earlier. He worked in various settlements until 1912, but moved to Brown, Manitoba, where his brothers now lived. He lived there after that.