Compiled by P. Davidson-Peters (2005)

1. Mary Jane Holmes - born 22 Sep 1827. She died on 27 Mar 1916.
2. George Holmes - died as a young man.
3. Walter Holmes - went west during the time of the building of the Union Pacific.

They resided in Monroe County, Michigan where George's family had settled in 1824. As a child, he and his siblings played with the Indian children and were constantly in their father's store and watched their father's ferry as it crossed the River Raisin. The family's relations with the Indians were always friendly and his father Richard Peters was known to them as "White Chief Peters."

George and Mary were enumerated in the Monroe Co. Michigan census records from 1850 through 1900, residing in Summerfield Township where his father had deeded land and the town of Petersburg had been platted and named in honor of him. George died on 11 Jan 1912 in Petersburg, and Mary on 27 Mar 1916 at the home of her son Richard G. Peters. They were laid to rest in Petersburg Cemetery.

Mary J. Holmes-Peters Obituary
George Peters Obituary

1. Mary Helen Peters - born 01 May 1849 in Petersburg, Monroe Co., MI; died 06 Feb 1850 in Petersburg, Monroe Co., MI.
2. Infant Peters - born 25 Dec 1850 in Petersburg, Monroe, MI; died January 1851 in Petersburg, Monroe Co., MI.
3. Helen Frances Peters - born 14 Nov 1851; died on 28 Jun 1942.
4. Richard George Peters - born 19 Jun 1865; died on 29 Mar 1934.

Helen was counted in the census records of 1860, 1870, and 1880 residing in Summerfield, Monroe Co., Michigan. After her marriage to William, they settled in Buffalo, New York where he was a commission merchant on the Perry Street market and became a highly respected citizen. Their four children were born while they resided here, and then in about 1910 they moved with their son George to the suburb of Buffalo, called Hamburg, where they lived the rest of their lives. William died on 18 Dec 1930 in Hamburg, Erie Co., New York and Helen on 28 Jun 1942.

1. Hazel Peters Rea - born 04 Sep 1881; married John C. Trefts.
2. Elizabeth Rea - born 20 Nov 1883; married Herman Seelbach.
3. Helen Holmes Rea - born 12 Jul 1885; died in 1892.
4. George Peters Rea - born 17 Sep 1894; married Doris Drummer.

Richard G. Peters Obituary
Frances Amelia Trombly-Peters Obituary
Trombly Family Ancestry

1. William Fullerton Peters - born 21 Jul 1886 in Petersburg, Michigan; died in Feb 1957 at Dixmont, Maine.
2. George Richard Peters - born 16 Mar 1888 in Petersburg, MIchigan; died on 24 Feb 1954 in Alhambra, California. [Obituary]
3. Frances Evelyn Peters - born 16 Jun 1895 in Petersburg, Michigan; died on 17 Nov 1982 in Traverse City, Mighigan.
4. Mary Helen Peters - born 06 Aug 1904 in Petersburg, Michigan; died on 23 Apr 1988 in Washington D.C.

1. Index & Personal Histories, Monore Co., MI, written by Dan Muszynski; ©1881 by Genealogical Society of Monroe Co., MI 1989, 183.
2. A History of Richard Peters of Halfmoon, Now Clifton Park, NY & His Descendants Vol. I, II, III by Leone Peters Kleinheinz; Photographic Images on CD by H.J. & John D. Peters - July 2002, Stamford, NY Public Library.
3. Frances A. Trombly-Peters Obituary -Monroe Evening News - 08 Apr 1944, Ellis Library, Monroe Co., MI.
4. Wedding Announcement: "Mr. Horace J. Breningstall annuonces the marriage of his daughter, Gertrude Main, to Mr. George R. Peters, on Wednesday, December twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen; Petersburg, Michigan."
5. Wedding Announcement: "Mr. and Mrs. Richard Peters request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Frances Evelyn, to Mr. Robert Jeffery Eoff, on Saturday morning June the seventeenth at eleven-thirty, Petersburg, Michigan."
6. U.S. Federal Census Records - See Extractions on this site

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