ID: 17786
Born west
Date of birth : 1912
Jón Hjálmarsson was born in Vopnafjörður in N. Múlasýsla on February 25, 1897. He had the last name Josephson in the west.
Unmarried and childless.
Jón was the son of Hjálmar Jósefsson and Þóra Jónsdóttir who came west in 1903. The family first settled in Minnesota, then moved from there to Leslie, Saskatchewan and settled on land just south of the village of the same name. There, Jón had a family farm with his siblings, Kristín and Jósef.