ID: 1138
Date of birth : 1887
Place of birth : Árnessýsla
Jóhanna Þórdís Stefánsdóttir was born in 1887 in Árnessýsla.
Spouse: Jón B. Þórðarson b. in Barðastrandasýsla in 1874, d. January 3, 1953 in Blaine, Washington. He took the last name Veum in the west.
Children: Childless.
Jóhanna came west to Manitoba in 1888 with her parents, Stefán Ólafsson and Guðrún Hinriksdóttir. They settled in the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð). Jón came west to the Akra Settlement in N. Dakota with his parents, Þórður Brynjólfsson and Valgerður Jónsdóttir, in 1883. He moved to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1902 and took land near Leslie. He moved to the village of Foam Lake in 1908.