Sigurlína Benediktsdóttir Photo: VÍÆ III
Sigurlína Benediktsdóttir was born in Pembina, N. Dakota on May 8, 1883. She died in Alberta on October 25, 1944. She had the last name Bardal before marriage.
Spouse: December 7, 1905 Baldur Stefánsson b. September 25, 1879 in Shawano, Wisconsin, d. in Alberta on June 13, 1949. He had the name Baldur Stephanson in the west.
Children: 1. Stephan b. July 26, 1906 2. Hrefna b. August 7, 1907 3. Cecil Benedikt b. April 1, 1908 4. Jakobína b. June 24, 1911.
Sigurlína was the daughter of Benedikt Jónsson and Sesselja Pálsdóttir. Sigurlína’s father and Baldur’s mother were siblings, children of Jón Jónsson in Mýri í Bárðardal. She moved to Alberta about the same time as Baldur. He was the son of the poet Stephan G. Stephansson and his wife Helga Jónsdóttir. He grew up in the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota with his parents and siblings and moved with them west to Alberta in 1890. He began farming there in 1905 and farmed until his dying days.