ID: 11979
Date of birth : 1861
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Þórunn Ásmundsdóttir was born in 1861 in N. Múlasýsla.
Spouse: Eiríkur Jóhannesson b. in 1859 in N. Múlasýsla. He took the name Erik or Alec Johnson in the west.
Children: 1. Júlíus Ásmundur b. in Minnesota in 1884.
They came west to Minnesota in 1880 with Þórunn’s mother, Ástríður Sveinsdóttir. They lived in Lincoln County in 1885 but then moved to Minneota ten years later. Life’s road led them from there to Watertown, S. Dakota sometime after the turn of the century and are listed there in the Census of 1910. Eiríkur was a carpenter, but later worked for a railway company.