Ásgerður Pétursdóttir

ID: 4359
Date of birth : 1851
Place of birth : Dalasýsla

Ásgerður Pétursdóttir was born on August 21, 1851 in Dalasýsla.

Spouse: Guðmundur Henry Guðmundsson b. 1841 in Dalasýsla. He took the last name Johnson in the west. He died on December 16, 1898 in Minnesota.

Children: 1. Jóhannes (John) b. 1879, d. 1967  2. Jacob b. 1882 3. María (Mary in the west) b. 1883 4. Aðalsteinn b. 1886, d. 1889 5. Aðalsteinn (Stone in the west) b. February 2, 1887  6. Valdimar Gudmundsson b. May 28, 1889.

Guðmundur’s father Guðmundur Jónsson and his wife Þuríður Halldórsdóttir traveled west with Guðmundur in 1878. Also with them was Þuríður’s daughter, Ásgerður Pétursdóttir, who married Guðmundur Henry in the west. They settled in the Lyon Country Settlement in Minnesota.