ID: 14277
Date of birth : 1832
Place of birth : S. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1904
Jóhannes Sveinsson and Soffía Vilhjálmsdóttir Photo: Well Connected
Soffía Vilhjálmsdóttir with sons Gunnar and Guðjón Photo: Well Connected
Jóhannes Sveinsson was born in S. Múlasýsla in 1832. He died at the home of his son Gunnar, in Marietta, Washington on June 8, 1904.
Spouse: Soffía Vilhjálmsdóttir b. January 15, 1834 in S. Múlasýsla.
Children: 1. Þorsteinn 2. Vilhjálmur b. 1865 3. Sveinn b. 1866 4. Gunnar b. November 20, 1867 5. Guðjón Gunnlaugur (John G.) b. 1878.
They emigrated west in 1885 and bought and lived on land near Minneota. Most of the family moved to the Bellingham, Washington near the Pacific Coast around the turn of the century. Most of the sons took the last name Holm in the west.