ID: 8300
Date of birth : 1866
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1943
Björg Benediktsdóttir was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla on September 9, 1866. She died in Sonoma County in California on September 29, 1943.
Spouse: June 19, 1913 in Oregon. Someone with McKain as a last name.
Children: Information missing.
Björg came west to Wisconsin in the United States in 1873 with her parents, Benedikt Vídalín Halldórsson and Sigríður Þorvaldsdóttir. They settled in Minneota, Minnesota before 1880. Björg moved west to the Pacific coast and was married. In 1920, she ran a grocery store in Astoria, Oregon where her mother and brother Halldór lived.