Brief Life History of Susan
When Susan Jeter was born in 1844, in Texas, United States, her father, George Washington Jeter, was 47 and her mother, Mary West, was 41. She lived in Panola, Texas, United States in 1860.
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- Unknown in household of George W Jeter, "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860"
- Susan Jeter in household of Washington Jeter, "United States Census, 1860"
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1844 · German Immigration to Texas
Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Geater .
German: variant of Jetter and, in North America, possibly also an altered form of this. The surname Jeter is very rare in Germany.
History: John Jeter is said to be one of a group of Huguenots who came from England to VA in 1700, but the name is found in England from the late 13th century, long before the first Huguenot refugees arrived there in the late 16th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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