ID: 7441
Date of birth : 1870
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1965
Valdimar Þorláksson was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla on December 30, 1870. He died in Minnesota on May 12, 1965. He took the name Walter Th. Peterson in the west.
Spouse: Annie A. b. 1872 of Swedish descent.
Children: 1. Violet b. 1897 2. Myrtle b. 1898 3. Pearl b. 1901 4. Ruby b. 1903 5. Ethel b. 1905 6. Lilly b. 1906 7. Wallace b. 1908 8. Carl b. 1910 9. Laverne b. 1913 10. Leslie b. 1914 11. Jewel b. 1916 12. Elwin b. 1918 13. Marian b. 1920.
Valdimar came west with his foster father (and uncle), Jóhannes Pétursson, and his children in 1882. He was the son of Þorlákur Pétursson and Sigríður Gottskálksdóttir. They had come west in 1873. Valdimar was a farmer in Lyon County, Minnesota in 1900.