ID: 14476
Date of birth : 1875
Place of birth : S. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1948
Sigtryggur Hansson was born in S. Múlasýsla on March 27, 1875. He died on January 12, 1948 in Los Angeles. He took the name Siver Johnson or Sigur Trig Johnson in the west.
Spouse: Ermina or Irwenia b. in Illinois.
Children: Marion b. 1905.
Sigtryggur came west in 1884 with his parents, Hans Jónsson and Hólmfríður Sigurðardóttir. They settled in Swede Prairie Township in Yellow Medicine County in Minnesota and that is where Sigtryggur grew up. He later moved to Great Falls, Montana where he worked for a number of years in a grocery store.