ID: 9203
Date of birth : 1826
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1897
Jónas Kortsson was born in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1824. He died in N. Dakota in 1897.
Spouse: Margrét Sveinsdóttir b. 1830 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla, d. 1894.
Children: 1. Sigfús b. 1856 2. Þórvör b. 1860 3. Jónína Helga b. 1866 4. Ingibjörg Hildur b. 1875
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876 and went directly to New Iceland. Their life’s road led them to the Thingvalla Settlement in N. Dakota where they took land north of Mountain.