Anna Einarsdóttir was born on November 15, 1857 in Dalasýsla.
Spouse: Swanson, of Irish descent.
Children: Information missing.
Anna came west in 1884 with her father, Einar Magnússon, and his wife, Kristín Jónsdóttir, and their sons, Jakob and Sveinn. They first settled in the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota but later in the Mouse River Settlement. It is unclear when she moved west to the Pacific, but Sveinn, her half-brother and his family went there in 1935. They settled south of Blaine, Washington and lived well. Anna’s stepmother, is registered at Anna’s home in Blaine in 1940, the year she dies. An article in Heimskringla on January 5, 1955, publishes donors to a home for senior citizens in Blaine, Stafholt, says: “Mrs. Anna Swanson in memory of Jakob Westford.” He was Anna’s half-brother. Finally, in a memoir about Sveinn in Lögberg-Heimskringla, July 20, 1961, when discussing Sveinn’s childhood home in N. Dakota, “Sveinn grew up in such a wonderful charitable home with his brother Jakob, who has now died, and one foster sister, Anna, now Mrs. Svanson, Assistant Counselor in Stafholt, Blaine, Wash.”