ID: 15438
Born west
Date of birth : 1899
Davíð Magnússon was born in Cavalier County in N. Dakota on May 5, 1899.
Spouse: March 29, 1929 Gróa Sæmundsdóttir b. May 19, 1897 in Mýrasýsla.
Children: 1. Erling b. September 29, 1933.
Davíð was the son of Magnús Davíðsson and Sigurbjörg Jónasdóttir, who farmed a short distance from Cavalier, N. Dakota. Davíð did various agricultural work in his younger years, but then ran a hardware store in Cavalier. Gróa’s parents were Sæmundur Jakobsson and Helga Helgadóttir, who came west in 1899 and settled in the Svold settlement in N. Dakota.