Guðrún Ólafsdóttir

ID: 8075
Date of birth : 1864
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1933

Guðrún Sigríður Ólafsdóttir was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla on October 4, 1864. She died in Roseau, Minnesota on September 12, 1933.

Spouse: Norwegian man, Ole Oyes (Oie) b. 1859 in Oyola, Melhus in Norway.

Children: 1. Evan b. January 2, 1888 2. Oliver Wilhelm b. October 2, 1890 3. Clarence b. September 27, 1892 4. Elsie Ola b. 1894, d. 1895 5. Elizabeth b. January 10, 1896 6. Gordon Dewey b. April 12, 1898 7. Ethel Irene b. February 28, 1901.

Guðrún came west in 1876 to New Iceland with her parents, Ólafur Ólafsson and Guðrún Halldórsdóttir. They moved south to Mountain, N. Dakota about 1880. Ole and Guðrún lived in the Hensel Settlement, then in Mountain, but in 1896 they settled in Roseau, Minnesota.