ID: 4679
Date of birth : 1856
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Jósafat Ásgrímsson was born in 1856 in Skagafjarðarsýsla. He took the name Joseph T. Hallson in the west.
Spouse: Sigurborg Þorsteinsdóttir b. in Ísafjarðarsýsla in 1852.
Childeless. They took in Guðmundur Júlíusson, Jósafat’s nephew, as a foster child after coming to Minnesota.
They came west to America in 1888 with Jósafat’s mother and Guðmundur Júlíusson traveling with them. They settled in Duluth, Minnesota, but in 1910, Jósafat and Sigurborg are listed as living in Waterman in Kitsap County, Washington.