Jóhanna Geirhjartardóttir

ID: 9142
Date of birth : 1878
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla

Jóhanna S Geirhjartardóttir was born on August 23, 1878 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla.

Spouse: April 13, 1904 Steinólfur Steinólfsson b. November 19, 1873 in Borgarfjarðarsýsla, d. in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan on October 19, 1925.

Children: 1. Ólöf Louise b. July 21, 1905 2. Ingólfur Geirhjörtur b. Marcy 6, 1911 3. Guðfinna Þórdís b. July 12, 1915.

Jóhanna’s parents, Geirhjörtur Kristjánsson and Guðfinna Jónsdóttir, came west with their children in 1881. They settled in N. Dakota.  Steinólfur came west in 1882 with his father, Steinólfur Grímsson. He grew up in the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota but moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) about 1908 and took land near Mozart.