ID: 3676
Date of birth : 1823
Place of birth : Dalasýsla
Date of death : 1903
Gróa Jónsdóttir was born in Dalasýsla on June 27, 1823. He died in N. Dakota on December 14, 1903.
Spouse: Þórarinn Árnason b. 1816 in Snæfellsnessýsla. He died in N. Dakota in 1893.
Children: 1. Árni b. 1847 2. Sólrún b. 1849 3. Sigurður b. 1852 4. Þórarinn b. 1855 5. Magnús b. 1857 6. Kári b. 1860.
Þórarinn and his son Magnús came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1883. Traveling with them was Magnús’ fiancée, Elísabet Daníelsdóttir. Árni, Þórarinn’s eldest son, had come west a year earlier. Gróa and Kári came west in 1885, while Sigurður came with his family 1889. Þórarinn took land in the Sand Hill settlement in N. Dakota and lived there.