Magnús Oddsson

ID: 17026
Date of birth : 1877
Place of birth : Dalasýsla
Date of death : 1959

Magnús Oddsson Mynd Dm III

Ingunn Elín Gunnlaugsdóttir

Magnús Oddson was born on December 18, 1877 in Dalasýsla. He died in Saskatchewan on November 20, 1959.

Spouse: Ingunn Elín Gunnlaugsdóttir of Húnavatnssýsla, d. December 3, 1956.

Children: 1. Margrét 2. Oddur 3. Gunnlaugur 4. Sigurlaug.

Magnús came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1886 with his parents and siblings. He grew up with them in the Hallson Settlement in N. Dakota and moved with them to the Lakes Settlement (Vatnabyggð) in Saskatchewan in 1905.  He took land in the northern part of the Wynyard community and lived there. In 1936, he moved to Washington state and settled a little north of Blaine.