When Harold Franklin Peterson was born on 10 October 1907, in Smoot, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States, his father, Charles Henry Peterson, was 41 and his mother, Mary Nelson Bruce, was 41. He married Leah Chloe Taysom on 2 June 1932, in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Pleasant View Election Precinct, Utah, Utah, United States in 1940 and Utah, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 13 July 1996, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Timpanogos Memorial Gardens, Orem, Utah, Utah, United States.
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English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
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Possible Related NamesMary Nelson Bruce was born 15 April 1866 at Motherwell, Lanark Scotland. She was the fourth child of James Barefield and Elizabeth Wilson. To this union, twelve children were born. James Barefield was …
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