ID: 15089
Date of birth : 1857
Place of birth : S. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1933
Helga Jónsdóttir was born in 1857 in S. Múlasýsla. She died in Minnesota in 1933.
Spouse: 1880 Jósef Jósefsson b. in Vopnafjörður in N. Múlasýsla on July 14, 1835, d. April 18, 1913 at his home in Minneota, Minnesota. He took the name Joseph Josephson in the west.
Children: 1. Kristín b. 1886, d. 1893 2. Carl Victor b. 1888, twin 3. Elvira Carolina b. 1888 4. Axel Jón b. 1889, d. 1890.
Helga came west to Minnesota in 1878, while her parents, Jón Þorvarðarson and Rósa Snorradóttir, came west in 1882. Jósef also came west in 1878 and was one of the first Icelandic settlers in the Lyon County Settlement in Minnesota.