Jón Guðmundsson

ID: 10283
Date of birth : 1867
Place of birth : N. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1957

Jón Guðmundsson was born on June 4, 1867 in Þingeyjarsýsla. He died on November 2, 1957. He took the last name Isfeld in the west.

Spouse: April 5, 1889 Margrét Jónsdóttir Westdal b. October 18, 1871 in N. Múlasýsla, d. April 27, 1951.

Childless, but they raised Guðný Margrét Hofteig and her brother Halldór Hofteig. They were the children of Margrét’s sister Matthildar.

Jón came west with his parents in 1879, and Margrét emigrated with her parents, Jón Guðmundsson and Sigríð Benediktsdóttir, a year later. They were married in the west and lived in the Lyon County Settlement.