ID: 11967
Date of birth : 1816
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1901
Jón Níelsson was born in 1816 in N. Múlasýsla. He died on January 31, 1901 in Minnesota. He took the last name Wium in the west.
Spouse: Málfríður Ólafsdóttir d. in 1852.
Children: 1. Guðrún Jónasdóttir b. November 1, 1839 2. Anna Katrín b. July 1, 1841 3. Gróa b. December 25, 1843 4. Níels b. July 13, 1849. Other children did not come west.
Jón came west in 1876, together with his daughter Guðrún and her family. Little is known about Jón’s travels, but he probably went first to Manitoba and from there to N. Dakota like his daughter and son-in-law. Jón at some time moved to Roseau County, Minnesota, where he is living in the 1900 census.