Ásthildur Grímsdóttir

ID: 4901
Date of birth : 1884
Place of birth : Ísafjarðarsýsla

Ásthildur Grímsdóttir was born in Ísafjarðarsýsla in 1884.

Spouse: Magnús Magnússon b. February 27, 1873 in Húsey in Hjaltastaðaþinghá in N. Múlasýsla.

Children: 1. Eiríkur b. 1908 2. Ólafur b. 1915 3. Ragnhildur b. 1916.

Magnús came west to Minneota, Minnesota in 1905 while Ásthildur came west a year later to Glouchester, Massachusetts where her mother, Hólmfríður, lived. She moved from there in 1907 to Minneota where they were married. Magnús taughts for a few years at Gustavus Adolphus University, but later managed land for a mining company in Virginia County.