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- Ihre Namen stehen auf einer Liste der "Pioneer Icelandic Settlers in Thingvalla Township".
The list below contains the names of Icelandic families known or believed to have lived in Thingvalla Township during the settlement period. Thingvalla Township is located in southwest Pembina County, North Dakota, and is one of three townships in the county that was settled primarily by people that were born in Iceland.
- Thorarinn "Thor" Gudmundson applied for homestead entry in 1899 for NW24-37-2W5, near Tindastoll, Alberta. He had also purchased a C.P.R. quarter on Sec. 15-37-2W5. Here he built a two story 16x18 frame house, with a 10x20 lean-to and 12x16 addition, as well as a granary and log warehouse. Thor, his wife Minerva, and five children lived here and raised a number of cattle, sheep, horses and pigs. Thor received his land grant on Sept. 29, 1902.
T. Gudmundson Dies Monday
Thor Gudmundson, who came to the Markerville district in 1890 and to Red Deer in 1905, died in the Eckville Hospital on Monday morning in his 81st year. He had a stroke a week or so earlier, soon after his arrival in Alberta from the Coast, where he had been spending his winters.
Mr. Gudmundson was born in Iceland, and came out with the first large Icelandic group which settled in Manitoba near Lake Winnipeg about seventy-five years ago. He moved to North Dakota, where he was married in 1890, and that same year the young couple came out to settle in the Markerville district, where they farmed for the next fifteen years.
In 1905 the family moved to Red Deer, where Mr. Gudmundson was actively engaged in excavation and concrete work. Soon after the end of the First Great War they decided to return to farming and took a farm at Elfros, Sask. Their only son, Stephen, who served in the army was not in good health, and the decision to go farming again was on this account. He passed away in 1937. About fifteen years ago Mr. Gudmundson gave up active work. He and Mrs. Gudmundson were able to celebrate their golden wedding in 1940. Mrs. Gudmundson died four years later. Since that time Mr. Gudmundson has made his home with his daughters, and has been a frequent and welcome visitor to Red Deer, where he is kindly remembered by many of the older residents.
Four daughters, Mrs. Wm. Lee, Hilliers, B.C.; Mrs. H. M. Sumarlidason, Edmonton; Mrs. F. G. Jenkins, Benalto, and Mrs. W. E. Janssen, Hillsdown, and one daughter-in-law, Mrs. Annie V. Gudmundson, Ottawa, survive. There are four grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. One sister, Mrs. A. W. Johns, Brandon, Man., also survives.
Funeral services were conducted at the Brown & Johnson chapel yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon by Rev. D. L. Crocker. Blaine Chapman sang a solo, and a number of old friends from the city and country were able to be present.
Following the ceremony the casket was shipped to Vancouver, where services will be held tomorrow (Thursday) and interment made in Forest Lawn cemetery, where Mrs. Gudmundson is buried. Mrs. Jenkins and Mrs. Sumarlidason accompanied the casket to Vancouver.
The Red Deer Advocate, May 11, 1949, page 5; includes a photo of Mr. Gudmundson.
Alberta Death Reg. #1949-08-006174
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1869 - 1949 (80 Jahre)
