ID: 14271
Date of birth : 1846
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1929
Friðrik Guðmundsson: He was born in 1846 at Hreinsstöðum in N. Múlasýsla. He died on December 16, 1929 in Minnesota. He took the name Frederick Gudmundsson in the west.
Spouse: Guðný Þorláksdóttir b. March 25, 1856; d. Sept. 11, 1930 of cancer.
Children: 1. Vilborg b. January 25, 1878 2. Már b. August 1882 3. Jóhann Sigfinnur b. October 8, 1889 in Minnesota. Two other children died in infancy.
They emigrated west in 1883, leaving from Seydisfjord on the ship “Craikfirth”. They settled on land in Swede Prairie Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota and farmed there until 1897 when they moved into Minneota.