ID: 7297
Date of birth : 1858
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1938
Jónas Jónsson was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1858. He died in 1938.
Spouse: 1887 Ingibjörg Sigfúsdóttir b. 1861 in Skagafjarðarsýsla.
Children: 1. Jón b. January 13, 1887 in Akra, N. Dakota 2. Árni Lawrence b. September 7, 1891 3. Sigfús Mozart b. October 17, 1895 in Markerville 4. Rannveig Frances b. November 24, 1904 in Markerville, d. October 24, 1926 in Morden, Manitoba.
Jónas emigrated west to New Iceland with his father in 1876 and lived there until 1878. He was in the first group of settlers who moved south N. Dakota and took land in the Hallson Settlement. Jónas and Ingibjörg moved west to the Markerville Settlement in Alberta in 1889 but returned to Morden, Manitoba in 1923.