`` My father and mother died when I was two years old '', I said.

After the death of Lincoln's mother, his older sister, Sarah, took charge of caring for him until their father remarried in 1819 ; Sarah later died in her 20s while giving birth to a stillborn son.

While in Athens, his wife Pythias died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stageira, who bore him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus.

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

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Alp Arslan died four days later from this wound on 25 November 1072 in his 42nd year, and was taken to Merv to be buried next to his father Chaghri Beg.

At the age of 13, Mackenzie's father died, and he was forced to end his formal education in order to help support his family.

Antoninus ’ father and paternal grandfather died when he was young and he was raised by Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, reputed by contemporaries to be a man of integrity and culture and a friend of Pliny the Younger.

In 59 BC, when he was four years old, his father died.

His father, for example, was guillotined during the French Revolution and his wife died shortly after their marriage.

" He died three days later on March 4 ; Louisa May died only two days after her father.

Several attempts to find a new home failed ; one such stop was on Sicily where in Drepanum, on the island's western coast, his father, Anchises, died peacefully.

After the sojourn in Carthage, the Trojans returned to Sicily where Aeneas organizes funeral games to honor his father, who had died a year before.

In 12 BC, Agrippina ’ s father died.

Alexander's father died on 8 July 1249 and he became king at the age of seven, inaugurated at Scone on 13 July 1249.

The young Alexios IV was strangled in prison, while his father Isaac died shortly afterwards, his death variously attributed to fright, sorrow, or foul play.

On 26 June, Alexei died in the Petropavlovskaya fortress in Saint Petersburg, two days after the senate had condemned him to death for conspiring rebellion against his father, and for hoping for the cooperation of the common people and the armed intervention of his brother-in-law, the emperor.

Jackson's father died in an accident in February 1767, at the age of 29, three weeks before his son Andrew was born in the Waxhaws area.

On 7 January 1325, Afonso's father died and he became king, taking full revenge on his brother.

Ammonius ' father, Hermias, died when he was a child, and his mother, Aedesia, raised him and his brother, Heliodorus, in Alexandria.

Amyntas III ( Greek: Ἀμύντας Γ ΄, died 370 BC ), son of Arrhidaeus and father of Philip II, was king of Macedon in 393 BC, and again from 392 to 370 BC.

In 1320, Andronikos accidentally murdered his brother Manuel, whereupon their father died of grief.

His father died when he was two years old and he remained under the guardianship of his cousin, Guillaume Jourdain, count of Cerdagne ( d. 1109 ), until he was five.

In 1772, Forster's father Johann became a member of the Royal Society.

* The first trial for murder in Hillsborough County was of Isreal Wilkins Jr, of Hollis, for the murder of his father, Isreal Wilkins Sr., on November 2, 1772.

Upon the death of Allan MacDonald's father in 1772, the family moved into the MacDonald family estate at Kingsburgh.

Between 1772 and 1774, Fox's father had – shortly before dying – had to pay off £ 120, 000 of Charles ' debts ; the equivalent of around £ 11 million at today's prices.

His mother died in 1762, and when his father died in 1772, Joseph inherited his father ’ s house, looms and workshop as well as a vineyard and quarry in Couzon-au-Mont d ’ Or.

His father, Matthew Stewart ( 1715 – 1785 ), was professor of mathematics in the University of Edinburgh ( 1747 – 1772 ).

Karl Friedrich von Schlegel was born on 10 March 1772 at Hanover, and his father was the Lutheran pastor Johann Adolf Schlegel ( 1721-1793 ).

It is during the summer of 1772, a few months after his wife had given birth to a stillborn daughter, that began Philippe's secret liaison with one of her ladies-in-waiting, Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, comtesse de Genlis, the niece of Madame de Montesson, the Morganatic wife of Philippe's father.

On May 9, 1772, his father Christian died at the age of 45 ; a mere three years after the birth of his first son.

He practiced law until 1772, when he was appointed by Governor Thomas Hutchinson to replace his father ( who had resigned ) on the Superior Court bench.

* Richard Dana ( lawyer ) ( 1699 – 1772 ), American lawyer and politician, father of Francis Dana,

After he became father of several children, he returned to Edinburgh in 1772 or 1773.

His mother was Elizabeth Dwight ( 1772 – 1813 ) and father was William Walton Woolsey ( 1766 – 1839 ).

Born on 2 January 1765 in Reepham near Norwich ( where he was baptised at All Saints on 13 January in the same year ), Richard Westall moved to London after the death of his mother and the bankruptcy of his father in 1772.

When Timur Shah succeeded his father in 1772, the regional chieftains only reluctantly accepted him, and most of his reign was spent reasserting his rule over the Durrani Empire.

In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Danish governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772.

Rodgers ' father was Commodore John Rodgers ( 1772 – 1838 ), and he was the grandfather of pioneering Naval aviator Commander John Rodgers ( 1881 – 1926 ).

His father, who was Member for the Borough of Derby and a Commissioner of the Board of Trade, committed suicide on 2 January 1772 through pecuniary trouble.

In 1772, he became a member of the House of Burgesses, representing Cumberland County as his father John Fleming had done before him, and remained in this position until that body was terminated by the revolution.

Francia was a water-colour painter, was born at Calais on 21 December 1772, and was brought early in life to London by his father, a refugee.

* William Stevenson ( Scottish writer ) ( 1772 – 1829 ), Scottish nonconformist preacher and writer ; father of Elizabeth Gaskell

As a youth he participated in bullfights in Algeciras and in Seville in 1772 ; and in Madrid, with his father and Costillares, in 1775.

Clemens made etchings based on Wiedewelt ’ s illustrations for a deluxe edition of Ludvig Holberg ’ s " Peder Paars " in 1772, giving the youngster a decent income in which to support himself and his father.