Guðmundur E. Guðmundsson and Guðrún Steingrímsdóttir Photo: Almanak 1918
Guðmundur Elías Guðmundsson was born in Árnessýsla on April 29, 1867. He died in Washington on September 29, 1957. He took the last name Goodman in the west.
Spouse: October 21, 1890 Guðrún Steingrímsdóttir b. in Borgarfjarðarsýsla on October 5, 1870.
Children: 1. Elísabet b. November 4, 1891, died as a child in Iceland 2. Matthías b. January 29, 1893 3. Sigrún b. August 8, 1894 4. Guðmundur b. July 30, 1897 5. Elísabet b. November 5, 1898, died in childhood 6. Henrietta Elísabet b. September 23, 1901, d. November 25, 1952 7. Valtýr b. July 10, 1904 8. Guðrún Dagmar b. May 2, 1906 9. Kristín Esther b. July 20, 1907 10. Agnes Ísafold b. February 28, 1911, 11. Steinunn Jóna b. February 4, 1915 12. Þórhallur Garðar b. February 4, 1917.
They came west to N. Dakota in 1900 and lived there two years. They next moved to Winnipegosis, Manitoba in 1902 and from there in 1904 to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan where they lived until 1923. They then moved to Point Roberts, Washington and made it their home for 26 years. Guðmundur lived his last years at Stafholt in Blaine.