Þorleifur Jónsson was born in 1864 in Húnavatnssýsla. He died in Point Roberts in 1946. He took the last name Johnson in the west.
Spouse: Jakobína Jónsdóttir b. in Dalasýsla on November 25, 1872, d. in Blaine, Washington on August 30, 1961.
Children: 1. Jón 2. Gísli 3. Sigvaldi 4. Baldur 5. Sigríður 6. Sigrún 7. María 8. Evelyn Frances.
Þorleifur came west to N. Dakota from Iceland after 1890 and there they were joined in marriage. They moved west to Point Roberts, Washington in 1895 and took land there. Jakobína came west to Canada in 1876 with her mother, Solveig Jónsdóttir, and her half-sister Sigríður Helgadóttir. Jakobína’s stepfather, Jón Gíslason, waited for them in Ontario and from there the family moved to Manitoba. After a number of years, they moved to Mountain, N. Dakota.