`` 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.

For example, Mozart wrote in December 1781 to his father that " the only one who counts in Emperor's eyes is Salieri ".

The father of Methodism in Canada was William Black who began preaching in settlements along the Petitcodiac River of New Brunswick in 1781.

He wrote to his father ( 13 October 1781 ):

Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray ( 1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815 ), was secretary to the board of revenue in the British East India Company.

His father, a Baptist minister nicknamed " Sir John ," died four years after his birth ( 1781 ).

* Prince William of Württemberg ( 1781 – 1864 ); succeeded his father as King William I.

His stay in London was possibly facilitated through his contact with Thomas Erskine, Earl of Kelly ( 1753 – 1781 ), who during a tour of the continent had received lessons from Carl ’ s father Johann Stamitz.

The volume of 1770 had struck Bruce's friends as being incomplete, and his father missed his son's " Gospel Sonnets ," which are supposed by the partisans of Bruce against Logan to have been the hymns printed in the 1781 edition of Logan's poems.

Alexander Dalziel of Wooler ( 1781 – 1832 ) was the father of the celebrated Dalziel Brothers.

Mysorean rockets were used against the British East India Company by the armies of Tipu Sultan and his father, Hyder Ali, rulers of the kingdom of Mysore in India, during the Battle of Pollilur in 1781.

* Johann Gottfried Lessing ( 1693-1770 ) pastor primarus in Kamenz, well respected, published theologian, translator and father of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 1729 – 1781 ) and Karl Gotthelf Lessing ( 1740 – 1812 ).

The books were believed to have originally been the property of his father in law, Richard Atknison ( father of first wife Mary ) who was the curate of Whittlesey and died in Oct 1781.

From the death of his father Richard Walter ( about 1755 / 6 ), until 1781 he was engaged in a prosperous business as a coal merchant.

Muhammed Bello was born to the fourth wife of Usman dan Fodio, known as Hauwa or Inna Garka, in 1781 Similar to all his siblings, he was involved in studies directed by his father in Degel until the family and some followers were exiled in 1804.

He became successful at the Sadler's Wells Theatre the following year ; his first major role was as Little Clown in the pantomime The Triumph of Mirth ; or, Harlequin's Wedding in 1781, in which he starred alongside his father.

* Charles Pepys Courtenay, 14th Earl of Devon ( 1870 – 1927 ) ( grandson ) Son of Henry Reginald, Lord Courtenay ( d. 1898 ), a barrister and JP, Poor Law inspector for the Western District, who predeceased his own father, by his wife Lady Evelyn Pepys, daughter of Charles Christopher Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham ( 1781 – 1851 ).

The design may have been inspired by the death in 1792 of Hugh Munro, son of General Sir Hector Munro, who had commanded a division during Sir Eyre Coote's victory at the Battle of Porto Novo ( Parangipettai ) in 1781 when Hyder Ali, Tipu Sultan's father, was defeated with a loss of 10, 000 men during the Second Anglo-Mysore War.

When her father died in 1781, Lee spent the proceeds of the opera on establishing a school at Bath, where she made a home for her sisters Anne and Harriet.

Frederic's father also served as a Representative of Boston in the Massachusetts General Court ( 1781 — 94 ), State Senator ( 1801 — 02 ), and Secretary of the Commonwealth ( 1808 — 09 ), and was a founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society, whose first meeting was held in his house in Boston.

Sassoon was born in Baghdad, where his father, Saleh Sassoon, was a wealthy businessman, chief treasurer to the pashas ( the governors of Baghdad ) from 1781 to 1817, and leader of the city's Jewish community.

He succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Vere in 1781 and his cousin as 5th Duke of St Albans in 1787.