When Queenie Jeter was born about 1841, in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, her father, William L. Jeter, was 32 and her mother, Sarah R. Brown Philpott, was 23.
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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.
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