ID: 13076
Date of birth : 1869
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1958
Oddur Benjamínsson was born on July 4, 1868 in N. Múlasýsla. He died in N. Dakota in 1958. He took the last name Sveinsson in the west.
Spouse: December 31, 1900 Guðný Schram.
Children: 1. Sveinn Joseph b. May 21, 1901 in Mountain 2. Kristín b. December 20, 1905, d. 1916 3. Sigurbjörg b. December 27, 1908.
Oddur emigrated west to Canada in 1876 with his mother, Sigurbjörg Björnsdóttir, and her husband, Sveinn Þorsteinsson, and his siblings. They settled in Mikley, New Iceland, but in 1880 Oddur accompanied his mother south to N. Dakota. They lived there the rest of their lives. Guðný was the daughter of Jósep Schram Jóhannsson and Katrín Jónasdóttir.