Rósa Kristjánsdóttir

ID: 5960
Date of birth : 1843
Place of birth : Húnavatnssýsla
Date of death : 1941

Rósa Kristjánsdóttir was born on September 22, 1843 in Húnavatnssýsla. She died in Minneapolis on March 7, 1941.

Spouse: September 13, 1862 Stefán Jónsson b. in Húnavatnssýsla in 1830, d. in Lyon County, Minnesota in 1907. He took the last name Ásman (Ousman) in the west.

Children: 1. Árni b. 1863  2. Kristján b. 1865, d. 1868 3. Guðrún Sigríður b. 1869, d. 1970 4. Benedikt Helgi b. 1870, d. 1872 5. Sigríður (Sarah) b. February 2, 1873 6. Jóhanna Stefanía b. 1876, d. 1876 7. Ingvar b. November 26, 1879 8. Jóhann b. January 6, 1881 9. Benedikt b. 1882, d. 1883 10. Jóhanna b. January 1, 1887. Stefán had daughters with Sigríður Pétursdóttir, Ingibjörg b. 1862; with Ingibjörg Sölvadóttir, Helga b. 1867, d. 1898 in Minnesota; with Ingibjörg Gísladóttir, Ingiríður b. 1882, d. 1882.

They came west in 1883 from Ásum in Svínavatnshreppur to Minnesota and settled in Lyon County. Rósa lived with her daughter Jóhanna in Minneapolis in her later years.