ID: 13199
Date of birth : 1842
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Jón Þorleifsson was born on September 3, 1842 in N. Múlasýsla. He died in Minnesota before 1900. He took the name Jon Thorleifson in the west.
Spouse: Solveig Jónsdóttir b. 1851 in N. Múlasýsla, d. March 9, 1900 in Grafton, N. Dakota.
Children: 1. Sigríður b. June 10, 1875 2. Jóhanna Þuríður b. May 2, 1876, d. young 3. Þorleifur b. June 14, 1877 4. Jón b. January 17, 1879 5. Guðmundur b. December 29, 1880. Neither Jóhanna Þuríður nor Guðmundur came west with their parents.
They came west to Canada in 1883 and moved south to Minnesota the same year. Jón is listed in Kittsson County in 1895.