Jónas Þorvarðsson and Ingibjörg Freysteinsdóttir Photo: Dm
Jónas Þorvarðsson was born in Dalasýsla on December 8, 1866. He died in Winnipeg on January 27, 1957. He took the name J. Thorvardson in the west.
Spouse: 1890 Ingibjörg Freysteinsdóttir b. June 26, 1879 in Gullbringusýsla, d. July 3, 1963 in Pine Falls, Manitoba.
Children: 1. Kristín 2. Þorbjörg (Bertha).
Jónas came west to Winnipeg in 1887, together with his brother Bergþór. Jónas worked in Winnipeg for a while but moved south to Cavalier, N. Dakota, newly married, where they lived for two years. They moved from there to the Þingvalla Settlement in Saskatchewan where they lived until 1907. Then they went back to Winnipeg and lived there after that and where Jónas ran a grocery store for many years.