Þóra Sigurðardóttir was born on January 18, 1883 in N. Dakota. She died on November 15, 1967 in Minnesota. Spouse: Ólafur Jónasson b. November 27, 1878 in Wisconsin, d. March 10, 1956 in Minnesota. He took the name Oliver G. Olson in the west. Children: 1. Margrét Cynthia b. December 29, 1902 2. Sigurður Jónas (Sigurd Jonas) b. April 14, 1905 …
Ólafur Jónasson
Ólafur Jónasson was born on November 27, 1878 in Wisconsin. He died on March 10, 1956 in Minnesota. He took the name Oliver G. Olson in the west. Spouse: Þóra Sigurðardóttir b. January 18, 1883 in N. Dakota, d. November 15, 1967 in Minnesota. Children: 1. Margrét Cynthia b. December 29, 1902 2. Sigurður Jónas (Sigurd Jonas) b. April 14, …
Sigurður Jónasson
Sigurður Jónasson was born in Wisconsin on September 10, 1873. He took the names Sigurdur Olafson, Sigurdur Stone Olson, or S. S. Olson in the west. Spouse: Berth B. b. in Iceland in 1881. Children: 1. Wallace b. 1900 2. Evangeline b. 1904 3. Carl b. 1905 4. Edith b. 1911 5. Merle b. 1916. Sigurður was the son of …
Friðrika R Jónsdóttir
Friðrika Rósa Jónsdóttir was born in 1851 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. She died on June 22, 1941 in Selkirk. Spouse: July 21, 1878 Jóhann Jóhannsson b. June 23, 1857 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla, d. March 12, 1935 in Selkirk. They divorced in 1899. Children: 1. Jón b. 1885, d. 4 years of age 2. Árni b. 1887 3. Jónína Jóhanna b. June 20, 1889 in …
Kristín Magnúsdóttir
Kristín Magnúsdóttir was born in Dalasýsla on August 19, 1854. She died on October 17, 1952 in Manitoba. Spouse: Halldór Jónsson b. at Kirkjuból in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1855. He died on July 17, 1934 in Manitoba. Children: 1. Steinunn Ásta 2. Kristín Magnúsína 3. Victoría Jóhanna Guðrún. Halldór came west with two of his daughters. They first lived in New Iceland, …
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was born on February 27, 1820 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. She died in New Iceland on February 10, 1905. Spouse: October 6, 1848 Sigmundur Þorgrímsson b. May 15, 1826 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla, d. in New Iceland on February 1, 1902. Children: 1. Halfdán b. 1849 2. Hansína Guðbjörg b. 1850 did not come west 3. Sigríður b. 1851, d. 1852 …
Lúðvík H Sveinsson
Lúðvík Halldór Sveinsson was born on January 28, 1907 in Minneota, Minnesota. He died in Washington on April 19, 1955. He had the name Ludvik Halldor Westdal in the west. Unmarried and childless. Lúðvík was the son of Sveinn Oddsson and Margrét Ásgrímsdóttir. He was born in Minneota, Minnesota where his father worked as a printer. His mother’s parents, Ásgrímur …
Ásthildur Grímsdóttir
Ásthildur Grímsdóttir was born in Ísafjarðarsýsla in 1884. Spouse: Magnús Magnússon b. February 27, 1873 in Húsey in Hjaltastaðaþinghá in N. Múlasýsla. Children: 1. Eiríkur b. 1908 2. Ólafur b. 1915 3. Ragnhildur b. 1916. Magnús came west to Minneota, Minnesota in 1905 while Ásthildur came west a year later to Glouchester, Massachusetts where her mother, Hólmfríður, lived. She moved from …
Sigurbjörg Ríkharðsdóttir
Sigurbjörg Ríkharðsdóttir was born in 1888 in Minnesota. She was known as Bertha in the west. Spouse: Pétur Árnason b. November 28, 1884 in N. Múlasýsla, d. in Minnesota in 1953. He took the name Petur Magnuson in the west. Children: 1. Herbert Sigurður b. January 30, 1911 2. Iva Sigurbjörg b. May 10, 1912 3. Richard Allan b. November 22, …
Jóhann Jónsson
Jóhann Sigmundur Jónsson fæddist í Vestmannaeyjum 21. ágúst, 1887. Dáinn í Utah 21. október, 1964. Maki: 22. ágúst, 1911 Ethel Singleton f. í Provo í Utah 29. júlí, 1890, d. 18. janúar, 1968. Börn: Upplýsingar vantar. Jón var sonur Jóns Hreinssonar og Kristínar Guðmundsdóttur og fór með þeim til Spanish Fork í Utah árið 1892.