Fanney Pálsdóttir

ID: 19249
Born west
Date of birth : 1879
Place of birth : Kanada
Date of death : 1934

Fanney Pálsdóttir was born in Canada in 1879. She died on February 14, 1934 in Minnesota. She had the name Fanny Gunnarson in the west.

Spouse: Helmer B. Knudson b. in Norway in 1872, d. August 25, 1939.

Children: 1. Nellie b. 1905 2. Dorothy b. 1906.

Fanney was the daughter of Páll Gunnarsson and Jórunn Jónsdóttir who came west from Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1878 and lived in Minneapolis.  Fanney grew up there and lived with them until she became ill. In census of 1920 and again in 1930, she was a patient in the state hospital in Anoka, Minnesota.