Sæunn Jónsdóttir

ID: 8365
Date of birth : 1842
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1925

Sæunn Jónsdóttir was born on July 12, 1842 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. She died in Marietta, Washington on July 14, 1925.

Spouse: Bergvin Jónsson b. in N. Múlasýsla on October 24, 1852, d. in Washington on October 15, 1919. He took the last name Hoff in the west.

Childless, but they adopted two children: 1. Kolbeinn d. 1920 2. Þórdís.

Bergvin came west to Minnesota in 1879 with his father. They settled in Lyon County. Sæunn came west in 1883.  They began farming in Lyon County, but at the turn of the century, they moved west to the Pacific and settled in Marietta, Washington.