ID: 7697
Date of birth : 1849
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Jón Gíslason was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1849.
Spouse: Sigurbjörg Guðmundsdóttir b. 1851 in Skagafjarðarsýsla.
Childless, but Jón had two sons earlier: 1. Stefán b. 1879 2. Sigurður.
They came west from Garðakot in Skagafjörður in 1886 with Stefán and settled in N. Dakota. Two years later, they moved west to Calgary, Alberta, where they lived for a time. They settled on land about 3 km (1.5 miles) north of Tindastól where they lived until 1902. Jón then sold his house and land, moved to the town of Red Deer and settled there.