ID: 14468
Date of birth : 1897
Date of death : 1971
Magnús Ólafsson was born in Mjóafjörður in S. Múlasýsla on August 31, 1897. He died in Riverton in 1971. He had the last name Anderson in the west.
Spouse: April 29, 1921 Rannveig Bjarnadóttir b. 1898 at Bjarnastaðir in the Geysir settlement in New Iceland, d. in Riverton 1969.
Children: 1. Sumarrós 2. Kristín 3. Bjarndóra 4. Magnús 5. Ólafur 6. Björgvin 7. Margaret 8. Haraldur 9. Martin 10. Doreen 11. Lillian.
Magnús was the son of Ólafur Árnason and Sólrún Árnadóttir, who came west in 1903 and lived at Gilsá in the Geysir settlement. Magnús and Rannveig They started farming on a small plot of land west of Riverton. From there, they moved to Árnes and later to Riverton.