ID: 10631
Date of birth : 1858
Place of birth : N. Þingeyjarsýsla
Ólöf Jónsdóttir was born in 1858 at Hólsfjöllum in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1858.
Spouse: Aðaljón Guðmundsson b. in Þistilfjörður in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1850. They married in 1879 and came west that year.
Children: They had 12 children, but 6 died in infancy. All other came west: 1. Ólafur Soffonías 2. Kristín Soffía 3. Guðjón 4. Emilía Laufey 5. Kári Vilbert 6. Þrúður Margrét.
They first lived in Moorhead, Minnesota. They took land in North Dakota and took land in the vicinity of the village of Acton. They lived there on the Icelandic countryside for 19 years, but in 1899 they moved to Winnipegosis, Manitoba.