ID: 19208
Date of birth : 1889
Place of birth : Vesturland
Date of death : 1937
Halldóra Ólafsdóttir Photo: L.-H. Dec. 3, 2004
Halldóra Ólafsdóttir was born in western Iceland on August 19, 1889. She died on January 14, 1937 in Duluth, Minnesota. She took the name Dora Olson in the west.
Spouse: George C. Vickers b. in New York in 1857.
Children: 1. Janet b. 1908 2. Donald b. June 9, 1910 3. Douglas b. 1913.
Halldóra was the daughter of Ólafur Ólafsson and Þuríður Guðmundsdóttir in Snæfells- and Hnappadalssýsla who both died before 1891. Halldóra came west with her four siblings before 1900. She was in Winnipeg until 1904, then moved to Duluth, Minnesota. She lived in Minnesota the rest of her life with her husband who worked on with the railroad.