Elísabet Sigfúsdóttir was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1871. She died in Manitoba in 1930. She took the last name Helgason in the west.
Spouse: December 16, 1892 Árni Hallgrímsson b. July 25, 1870 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla, d. in the Brown Settlement in Manitoba in 1955. He took the last name Helgason in the west.
Children: 1. Leonard b. in Garðar, N. Dakota, September 25, 1893 2. Elis b. in Garðar, January 26, 1895 3. Jón Sigfús b. in Garðar, November 22, 1898 4. Kristbjörg b. in the Brown Settlement, January 3, 1905 5. Hallgrímur Helgi b. November 9, 1905 6. Þórunn Valgerður b. July 14, 1907.
Árni emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1878 with his foster parents, Árni Þorleifsson and Elísabet Jónasdóttir. They settled in N. Dakota. Árni’s parents, Hallgrímur Helgason and Kristbjörg Árnadóttir, came west in 1889. Elísabet came west in 1882. Árni and Elísabet moved to the Brown Settlement in southern Manitoba in 1900.