ID: 13041
Date of birth : 1869
Date of death : 1937
Benedikt Þórarinn Sigfússon was born in N. Múlasýsla on January 19, 1869. He died in Elfros in the Lakes settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan on June 11, 1937.
Spouse: Jónína Guðrún Jónsdóttir came west in 1878.
Children: 1. Jón Helgi b. in Hensel, N. Dakota on July 19, 1897.
Benedikt was the son of Sigfús Bjarnason and Helga Gunnlaugsdóttir who came west with their children in 1879. They settled in N. Dakota but moved from there to Vatnabyggð in Saskatchewan in 1907.