Sólrún Ketilsdóttir

ID: 14706
Date of birth : 1837
Place of birth : S. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1893

Sólrún Ketilsdóttir was born on May 29, 1837 in Reyðarfjörður in S. Múlasýsla. She died in N. Dakota in 1893.

Spouse: September 1, 1878  Eyjólfur Benediktsson b. at Eyvindará in S. Múlasýsla on February 13, 1833, d. 1895 in Mountain, N. Dakota..

Children: 1. Gísli 2. Pétur.

Sólrún came west to Canada on the same ship as Eyjólfur in 1876. Eyjólfur took land in Breiðuvík in the Hnausa Settlement and named it Eyjólfsstaður. They moved south to the Thingvalla Settlement in N. Dakota in 1881 and bought land near Mountain.