ID: 10842
Date of birth : 1856
Date of death : 1917
Jón Árnason was born in N. Þingeyjarsýsla on February 12, 1856. He died in Elfros, Saskatchewan on October 29, 1917.
Widower.
Jón came west across the sea in 1903 with his daughters Sigurveig, 16 years old, and Guðbjörg, age 14. In his later years, he lived with his daughter Sigurveig and her husband Jóhannes Gíslason near Elfros in the Lakes settlement (Vatnabyggð).