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 3. Carl William b. June 11, 1909.
Þóra was the daughter of Sigurður Bjarnason and his wife Sesselja Andrésdóttir who came west in 1880. Ólafur was the son of Jónas Ólafsson and his wife Margrét Ingjaldsdóttir who settled in Lincoln County in Minnesota in 1880. Ólafur and Þóra lived on their farm in Swede Prairie Township in Yellow Medicine County in 1910 but then moved elsewhere in Minnesota. Ólafur owned a hardware store in the village of Deer Creek in Otter Tail County, Minnesota in 1930.