When Eugene Peters Sr was born on 15 September 1930, in Elliott, Kentucky, United States, his father, Doctor Roscoe Peters, was 39 and his mother, Albertie Fay Sparks, was 35. He married Phyllis Ann Gibson in 1957, in Logan, West Virginia, United States. He died on 30 November 2003, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Obetz Cemetery, Obetz, Franklin, Ohio, United States.
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English, Scottish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . This surname (mainly of German origin) is also found in Sweden, Denmark, France (Alsace and Lorraine), and some other European countries. In North America it has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, such as Albanian Pjetraj and Pjetrushi, patronymics from the personal name Pjetër ‘Peter’ and its pet form Pjetrush; see also below and also examples at Peterson .
Irish: Anglicized form (translation) of Gaelic Mac Pheadair ‘son of Peter’.
Americanized form of Dutch and North German Pieters .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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