Guðrún Jónsdóttir

ID: 11549
Date of birth : 1865
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1950

Guðrún Jónsdóttir and son. Photo: Well Connected

Guðrún Salína Jónsdóttir was born in 1865 in N. Múlasýsla. She died on January 20, 1950 in Minnesota.

Spouse: 1897 Sveinn Magnússon b. December 23, 1863 in N. Múlasýsla. He died in Minnesota on July 27, 1959. He took the name Swain Magnus in the west.

Children: 1. Eugene Rafn b. February 27, 1899 2. Bjarni Stefán b. September 22, 1900.

Sveinn emigrated west to Minnesota in 1879. Guðrún came west with her parents, Jón Rafnsson and Guðrún Guðmundsdóttir, in 1889.  Sveinn learned photography and had a photography studio in Minneota. They lived their later years in Minneapolis.