ID: 19254
Born west
Date of birth : 1887
Place of birth : Minnesota
Date of death : 1970
Helgi Elías Jónsson was born on March 13, 1887 in the Lyon County Settlement in Minnesota. He died in 1970 in Mountain, N. Dakota. He had the names Henry Johnson and H. E. Reykdal in the west.
Unmarried and childless.
Helgi grew up in the home of his parents, Jón Gíslason and Þóra Halldórsdóttir, in Minnesota and moved west with them to the Pacific and then on to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan. He took land there, but then moved to N. Dakota and took land in the Akra Settlement.