ID: 5122
Date of birth : 1850
Place of birth : Strandasýsla
Date of death : 1914
Oddur Jónsson Photo: SÍND
Ingveldur Samúelsdóttir Photo: SÍND
Oddur Jónsson was born on September 25, 1850 in Strandasýsla. He died in N. Dakota on January 25, 1914.
Spouse: Ingveldur Samúelsdóttir b. August 14, 1845 in Dalasýsla, d. April 5, 1923.
Children: 1. Jón b. July 8, 1875, d. December 4, 1908 2. Samúel b. December 17, 1881 3. Þorsteinn b. 1878, d. young 4. Þorsteinn Hjörtur b. May 3, 1889 died as a young child. They had a foster son Jón Hjartarson, b. September 9, 1880, a nephew of Oddur.
They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1885 and bought land the same year in the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota.