ID: 7519
Date of birth : 1822
Date of death : 1897
Ragnheiður Pálsdóttir was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1822. She died in N. Dakota on October 27, 1897.
Spouse: Jóhann Pétur Hallsson b. 1823 in Skagafjarðarsýsla, d. in Hallson, N. Dakota in 1899.
Children: 1. Jóhann b. 1853 2. Sigurður b. 1859 3. Gunnar b. 1860 4. Ragnheiður b. 1862 5. Hallur b. 1863. Ragnheiður had these children earlier: 1. Elín b. 1840 2. Jósep Schram b. 1845 3. Jóhann Schram b. 1853.
They came west in 1876 to New Iceland but moved from there in 1878 and were the first Icelandic settlers to settle in an Icelandic settlement in N. Dakota. The area where Jóhann settled was called the Hallson settlement with the small village of Hallson.