His mother Martha " Mittie " Bulloch was a Southern belle from a slave-owning family in Roswell, Georgia, and she maintained Confederate sympathies.

Marshall's mother, Martha Patterson, was orphaned at age 13 while living in Ohio and came to live with her sister on a farm near the Marshalls ' Indiana home.

Her mother, Martha Mayor, was a paper conservator for the Freer and Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Institution.

Willy Brandt was born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm in the Free City of Lübeck ( German Empire ) to Martha Frahm, an unwed mother who worked as a cashier for a department store.

Lucretia Mott read a humorous newspaper piece written by her sister Martha Wright in which Wright questioned why, after an overworked mother completed the myriad daily tasks that were required of her but not of her husband, she was the one upon whom written advice was " so lavishly bestowed.

His mother, Martha W. ( née Hart ),

The film is about Henry Van Cleve ( played by Don Ameche ) who presents himself at the gates of Hell to recount his life and the women he has known from his mother onwards, concentrating on his happy but sometimes difficult 25 years of marriage to Martha ( Gene Tierney ).

Chavez was also present when Vargas proposed to his wife ( and mother of his 3 boys and 1 girl ) Martha Lopez Vargas.

The mother and daughter were inherited by Francis ' daughter, Martha Eppes, who took them with her as personal servants to her marriage to John Wayles as his first wife.

They were half-siblings to his daughters ; the first, Martha Wayles ( named after her mother, John Wayles ' first wife ), married the young planter Thomas Jefferson.

His father, Cabell Calloway II, was a lawyer and his mother, Martha Eulalia Reed, was a teacher and church organist.

Her idol was Martha Graham ( the mother of modern dance )

:" Martha felt a responsibility for the unsophisticated girl under her care, especially since her mother and sister were expecting to see her back at Mount Vernon.

* Martha Bulloch Roosevelt ( 1834 – 1884 ), mother of U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt

His father, Jimmie Lee " Big Jim " Vaughan, was an asbestos worker whose job often forced the family to move to different cities, while his mother, Martha Jean Vaughan, worked as a secretary.

His mother, Martha A.

Singer / Rapper Nicki Minaj used many alter egos such as Harujuku Barbie, the innocent and polite one, Nicki, she's the glamorous type, Roman Zolanski also refer as her " demon " inside her, and he's gay, she stated in her song Roman's Revenge ( featuring Eminem ), Martha Zolanski, a british woman which is Roman's mother and also her new alter ego and that is Rossa, a spanish woman ( pronounce as Rrrr-ossa ).

His mother Martha died in December 1996.

Martha Kostyra, Stewart's mother, died at the age of 93 on November 16, 2007.

In Twelve Extraordinary Women by Pastor John F. MacArthur, her life and story is analyzed along with that of Eve, Rahab, Ruth, Hannah, Mary the mother of Jesus, Anna, the Samaritan woman, Mary of Bethany, Martha of Bethany, Mary Magdalene, and Lydia.

In Philadelphia in 1946, David Alfred Eaton returns home from the war to find his mother Martha a wretched alcoholic, the victim of years of neglect and abuse from her husband Samuel, the owner of a prestigious iron and steel company.

In 1975, she appeared with Peter Falk, Oskar Werner, and Martha Scott in the Columbo episode Playback, playing wheelchair-using Elizabeth Van Wick, whose husband ( Werner ) murders her wealthy mother ( Scott ).

Her mother, Martha ( Lowenstein ), had emigrated with her family from Germany to the United States shortly after she was born.

After his father's death his mother Martha married John Christopher Smith, who was Handel's amanuensis.

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.

Agrippina wrote a memoir that recorded the misfortunes of her family ( casus suorum ) and wrote an account of her mother ’ s life.

He also wrote Sapphic stanzas on Homeric themes but in unHomeric style, comparing Helen of Troy unfavourably with Thetis, the mother of Akhilles.

While at prep school as a boarder his mother wrote to tell him she was marrying Cecil Pye, a bank manager, and when he was at home for the holidays his new family consisted of his mother, his stepfather and Christopher, his stepfather's son by an earlier marriage.

" My mother and father had been brought to this country from Russia when they were infants ," wrote Capp in 1978.

In " A Village Sketch ," author Miss Mitford wrote: " Then comes a sun-burnt gipsy of six, beginning to grow tall and thin and to find the cares of the world gathering about her ; with a pitcher in one hand, a mop in the other, an old straw bonnet of ambiguous shape, half hiding her tangled hair ; a tattered stuff petticoat once green, hanging below an equally tattered cotton frock, once purple ; her longing eyes fixed on a game of baseball at the corner of the green till she reaches the cottage door, flings down the mop and pitcher and darts off to her companions quite regardless of the storm of scolding with which the mother follows her runaway steps.

Chiang's father died when he was only eight years of age, and he wrote of his mother as the " embodiment of Confucian virtues ".

His father was gifted at drawing as well, wooing Alston's mother with small sketches in the medians of letters he wrote her.

The girl's mother wrote letters of complaint to the California Attorney General and to Los Angeles prosecutors.

The posting did not appeal to his mother, who wrote to Lord Charles Beresford, then a senior naval officer, member of parliament and personal friend, to use his influence to obtain something better.

E. P. Thompson and his mother wrote There is a Spirit in Europe: A Memoir of Frank Thompson ( 1947 ).

His mother, the Duchess of Suffolk wrote to Lord Burghley that ' my wise son has gone very far with my Lady Mary Vere, I fear too far to turn '.

Charles dutifully wrote to Amanda's mother ( who was also his godmother ), Lady Brabourne, about his interest.

He later wrote, " I never had any particular love for the farm — it was the mother on the farm I loved.

Soranus wrote that Hippocrates ' father was Heraclides, a physician, and his mother was Praxitela, daughter of Tizane.

Adams first learned of the Declaration of Independence from the letters his father wrote his mother from the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

Beatrice wrote to him seeking a safe-conduct to explain herself ; this granted, she travelled with her young son Frederick, now Margrave of Tuscany, and her mother, Matilda of Swabia, a sister of the emperor's grandmother Gisela.

To that effect, Cassatt's lifelong friend Louisine Havemeyer wrote in her memoirs: " Anyone who had the privilege of knowing Mary Cassatt's mother would know at once that it was from her and her alone that inherited her ability.

His mother wrote Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Jewish Family Cookbook.

He also wrote introductions for two books on Jewish culture, The Jewish American Family Album, by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, and Grandma Doralee Patinkin's Holiday Cookbook: A Jewish Family's Celebrations, by his mother, Doralee Patinkin Rubin.

This practice may stem from the influence of Gerald Gardner who wrote ( ostensibly quoting a witch, but perhaps in his own words ): The witches tell me ' The law always has been that power must be passed from man to woman or from woman to man, the only exception being when a mother initiates her daughter or a father his son, because they are part of themselves ' ( the reason is that great love is apt to occur between people who go through the rites together.