ID: 4499
Date of birth : 1832
Place of birth : Barðastrandarsýsla
Date of death : 1912
Eggert Magnússon was born at Skáleyjum at Breiðafjörður in Barðastrandasýsla on March 12, 1832. He died in N. Dakota on March 24, 1912. He took the last name Vatnsdal in the west.
Spouse: Soffía Friðriksdóttir b. May 12, 1830, d. October 26, 1907.
Children: 1. Friðrik b. 1864 2. Halldóra b. 1866 3. Elías Emil b. 1869 4. Þórður b. June 23, 1871.
They moved west to N. Dakota in 1886 and took land in the Víkur Settlement near Mountain.