Elín Benónísdóttir

ID: 6946
Date of birth : 1850
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Date of death : 1930

Elín Benonísdóttir was born in Húnavatnssýsla on October 22, 1850. She died on March 12, 1930 in Seattle.

Spouse: Jóhann Einarsson b. April 2, 1853 in Skagafjarðarsýsla, d. in Duluth on September 22, 1917.

Children: 1. Sturla b. December 9, 1879 2. Nanna b. November 3, 1882 3. Baldur b. March 10, 1886, d. January 4, 1962.

They came west to N. Dakota in 1883 and moved from there a year later to Duluth, Minnesota. Jóhann worked at various jobs, but then ran a dairy farm for 18 years. Elín moved west to Seattle in her later years and lived with either her son Baldur or her daughter Nanna.