ID: 7005
Date of birth : 1877
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1961
Sigurjón Valdimar Þorkelsson: Born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1877. He took the name Walter Gudmundsson in the west. He died in 1961.
Spouse: 1899 Kristín (Christine) Þorsteinsdóttir b. 1880 in the Lincoln County Settlement. She had the last name Westdal in the western settlement. She died in 1962.
Children: 1. Alvin (Jack) Steindor b. 1901 2. Petur Willard b. 1905 3. Lila Bernice b. 1907 4. Elizabeth (Polly) Doris b. 1914.
Sigurjón emigrated with his parents, Þorkell Guðmundsson and Anna Sigríður Skúladóttir, in 1883 and settled with family in the Lincoln County Settlement in Minnesota.