ID: 1321
Date of birth : 1841
Place of birth : V. Skaftafellssýsla
Jón Þórhallsson was born in W. Skaftafellssýsla in 1841. He died on July 17, 1922 on Washington Island, Wisconsin. He took the name John Thorhallsson Johnson in the west.
Spouse: Þórunn Gísladóttir b. 1840, d. 1908.
Children: 1. Ágústa b. 1863 2. Magnús b. 1864 3. Þorlákur b. 1871 4. Benedikt b. 1874 5. Þuríður b. 1876. Traveling with them to the west was a baby, Stefanía Ingvarsdóttir.
They emigrated west to Milwaukee in 1887 and lived with their son Magnús, who had emigrated the year before.