ID: 10809
Date of birth : 1871
Place of birth : N. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1945
Jón Einarsson: He was born in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1871. He died in Manitoba in 1945.
Spouse: 1895 Sigríður Jónsdóttir b. in Rangárvallasýsla in 1860, d. 1951 in Manitoba.
Children: 1. Margrét 2. Sigurþór 3. Einar Malvin b. 1900, d. 1956 4. Guðjón Ólafur b. 1904, d. 1960 all born in the West.
Jón came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1894 with his father, Einar Eiríksson, and his foster-daughter, Margrét Jónsdóttir. Jón settled in the Árnes Settlement in New Iceland and then moved to Winnipegosis in 1903.