ID: 14416
Date of birth : 1830
Place of birth : S. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1898
Katrín Björnsdóttir was born on July 16, 1830 in S. Múlasýsla. She died on March 7, 1898 in Minnesota.
Spouse: 1) Bjarni Björnsson 2) Jón Jónsson b. 1843 in N. Múlasýsla, d. in the Yellow Medicine Settlement in Minnesota on July 18, 1922. He took the last name Benjaminsson in the west.
Children: 1. Björn b. July 19, 1857; d. May 19, 1895 2. Jón b. 1863.
Jón and Katrín came west in 1878, settled in the Yellow Medicine Settlement in Minnesota, and named their farm Hólaland. Jón lived with Ingjaldur Árnason and his wife in later years.