Margrét Ingjaldsdóttir

ID: 8055
Date of birth : 1851
Date of death : 1878

Margrét Ingjaldsdóttir was born in North Iceland in 1851. She died in Wisconsin in 1878.

Spouse: Jónas Ólafsson b. January 24, 1846 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. He died on October 11, 1926.

Children: 1. Sigurður b. 1874 2. Ólafur (Oliver) b. March 10, 1878.

Jónas and Margrét came west to Wisconsin in 1873. They first lived near Milwaukee, but later moved to a Norwegian settlement where Jónas rented land from a Norwegian farmer. Margrét died there a few weeks after giving birth to Ólafur in the winter of 1878.