Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.

Hengesbach, who has been living on welfare recently, said he hopes to rebuild the farm which was settled by his grandfather in Westphalia, 27 miles southwest of here.

Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

His maternal grandfather joined the Army at 14 and was a mounted messenger for George Washington.

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.

After this deed he fled to Talmai, the king of Geshur () ( see also or ), his maternal grandfather, and it was not until three years later that he was fully reinstated in his father's favour and finally returned to Jerusalem.

Soon after the accession of Muhammad Shah Qajar to the throne of his grandfather, Fath Ali Shah, the Imam Hasan Ali Shah was appointed governor of Kerman in 1835.

Under the care of his mother, he was given not only that religious and Oriental education which his position as the religious leader of the Ismailis made indispensable, but a sound European training, a boon denied to his father and paternal grandfather.

With her siblings, Agrippina was raised in Rome by her maternal grandfather and maternal step-grandmother Livia Drusilla.

This in turn meant that Tiberius was also Agrippina's adoptive grandfather in addition to her paternal great-uncle.

His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

Manishtushu's son and successor, Naram-Sin ( 2254 – 2218 BC ) ( Beloved of Sin ), assumed the imperial title " King Naram-Sin, king of the four quarters ( Lugal Naram-Sîn, Šar kibrat ' arbaim )", and, like his grandfather, was addressed as " the god ( Sumerian

His full nomenclature shows that his grandfather or other ancestor was probably given Roman citizenship by the emperor Antoninus Pius, while proconsul of Asia.

Johnson's grandfather William was poverty stricken, and was unable to educate his son Jacob or pass on any land to him.

Prior to his death, according to the Book of Jubilees, Amram was among those who went to Egypt and recovered the bones of the sons of his grandfather and great uncles ( excluding those of Joseph which had already been brought to Canaan ), so that they could be reburied in the cave of Machpelah.

He was also a paternal grandfather of Alexander the Great.

According to Livy the war was commenced by the Latins who anticipated Ancus would follow the pious pursuit of peace adopted by his grandfather, Numa Pompilius.

He was named after his legal grandfather.

Their loss, however, was compensated by the tender solicitude and care of his paternal grandfather and grandmother, the latter of whom lived to experience in her turn the kindest personal attention from her grandson, who, when he had the means, gave her an asylum in his house at Rome.

As soon as Canova's hand could hold a pencil, he was initiated into the principles of drawing by his grandfather Pasino.

His father and grandfather followed the occupation of stone-cutters or minor statuaries ; and it is said that their family had for several ages supplied Possagno with members of that calling.

Soranus said that Hippocrates learned medicine from his father and grandfather, and studied other subjects with Democritus and Gorgias.

A third Midas is said by Herodotus to have been a member of the royal house of Phrygia and the grandfather of an Adrastus who fled Phrygia after accidentally killing his brother and took asylum in Lydia during the reign of Croesus.

His grandfather, the retired Emperor Emperor Kameyama was said to have acted through the Bakufu to ensure Go-Nijō's enthronement.

His early years were partly spent at the court of his grandfather, Charlemagne, whose special affection he is said to have won.

In an interview, Peres said: " As a child, I grew up in my grandfather's home … I was educated by him … my grandfather taught me Talmud.

Stephen J. Joyce, grandson of James Joyce, at a 1986 academic conference of Joyceans in Copenhagen, said “ If my grandfather was here, he would have died laughing ... Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can be picked up, read, and enjoyed by virtually anybody without scholarly guides, theories, and intricate explanations, as can Ulysses, if you forget about all the hue and cry.

Pierus is sometimes said to be have been father of Linus or Oeagrus and therefore the grandfather of Orpheus.

In this way, she could be said to be the first successor to the earldom of Pembroke since her grandfather Gilbert, the first earl.

It is said his grandfather taught at the same school Mao Zedong attended as a student.

He later said that this was at the instigation of his grandfather who, exasperated at the child's habit of wandering around while practising the violin, bought him a small cello to stop him from " getting in everybody's way ".

This Castillo is said to be the grandfather of the present Santiago Castillo family in Belize.

Several other praenomina were believed to refer to the circumstances of a child's birth ; for instance, Agrippa was said to refer to a child who was born feet-first ; Caeso to a child born by the operation known today as a caesarian section ; Lucius to one born at dawn ; Manius to one born in the morning ; Numerius to one born easily ; Opiter to one whose father had died, leaving his grandfather as head of the family ; Postumus to a last-born child ( whether or not the father was dead ); Proculus to one whose father was far away ; Vopiscus to the survivor of twins, the other of whom was born dead.

It was he, according to Aristocles, who turned the teachings of his grandfather into a comprehensive system, although it can at least be said that the foundations of Cyrenaic philosophy were laid down by the elder Aristippus.

It was said that Qianlong had made a promise during the year of his ascension not to rule longer than his grandfather, the Kangxi Emperor, who had reigned for 61 years.

King Arthur is often said to have been a member of the royal house of Dumnonia, his traditional grandfather, Constantine, being identified with the Constantine denounced by Gildas as the " tyrant whelp of the filthy lioness of Damnonia ".

Some old diesel locomotives, which have been in service for many years without causing such interference, are exempted from EMC tests and are said to have acquired grandfather rights.

Unexpectedly, Abbas now chose as heir the son of Mohammed Baqir Mirza, Sam Mirza, a cruel and introverted character who was said to loathe his grandfather because of his father ’ s murder.

However, Marquis of Shen, Cheng's grandfather, objected and said that the Rong people would revolt if the king deposed Cheng.

His grandson, the skier and SIS spymaster Peter Lunn, recalled: " My grandfather said ' Push him over the Reichenbach Falls ' and Conan Doyle hadn ’ t heard of them, so he showed them to him.

Stribog ( Stribozh, Strzybog, Стрибог ) in the Slavic pantheon, is the god and spirit of the winds, sky and air ; he is said to be the ancestor ( grandfather ) of the winds of the eight directions.

He later admitted that neither of his parents were particularly robust in stature with any unusual physical characteristics, although his maternal grandfather was said to have been a huge and powerful man.

His father's great grandfather, Pedro Vallejo, was said to have served as viceroy of New Spain, although his name does not appear on the list of viceroys.