ID: 3125
Date of birth : 1897
Gróa Sæmundsdóttir was born on May 19, 1897 in Mýrasýsla.
Spouse: March 29, 1929 Davíð Magnússon b. in Cavalier County, N. Dakota on May 5, 1899.
Children: 1. Erling b. September 29, 1933.
Gróu’s parents were Sæmundur Jakobsson and Helga Helgadóttir, who came west in 1899 and settled in the Svold settlement in N. Dakota. Davíð was the son of Magnús Davíðsson and Sigurbjörg Jónasdóttir, who farmed a short distance from Cavalier, N. Dakota. Davíð did various agricultural work in his younger years, but then ran a hardware store in Cavalier.