ID: 2923
Date of birth : 1848
Place of birth : V. Skaftafellssýsla
Date of death : 1913
Jón Þorgeirsson and Guðrún Jónsdóttir Photo: FVTV
Jón Þorgeirsson was born on June 12, 1848 inW. Skaftafellssýsla. He died on August 4, 1913 in Spanish Fork. He took the name John Thordarson in the west.
Spouse: March 20, 1888 Guðrún Jónsdóttir b. January 12, 1865 in Rangárvallasýsla. They divorced. She died in 1906 in Ivins, Idaho.
Children: John b. August 4, 1891 in Spanish Fork, d. 1925 2. Þórarinn David b. October 4, 1893, d. 1922. The brothers signed their last names as Johnson.
Jón emigrated west in 1874 to New York. From there, he went to California and then to Utah in 1878. Guðrún emigrated west in 1886. After their divorce, she moved with her sons to Idaho where her brothers and mother lived.