Lincoln's mother, Nancy, was the daughter of Lucy Hanks, and was born in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia, then part of Virginia.

His mother, Virginia Dell Cassidy ( 1923 – 1994 ), traveled to New Orleans to study nursing soon after he was born.

Sarandon was born and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, the son of restaurateurs Cliffie ( née Cardullias ) and Chris Sarandon, Sr. His mother is of Greek descent and his father, whose surname was originally " Sarondonethes ", was a Greek immigrant.

Eisenhower's mother, Ida Elizabeth Stover, born in Virginia of German Lutheran ancestry, moved to Kansas from Virginia.

Reinstated by White after promising good behavior, Poe went back to Richmond with Virginia and her mother.

James Madison, Jr. was born at Belle Grove Plantation near Port Conway, Virginia on March 16, 1751, ( March 5, 1751, Old Style, Julian calendar ), where his mother had returned to her parents ' home to give birth.

Stuart was educated at home by his mother and tutors until the age of twelve, when he left Laurel Hill to be educated by various teachers in Wytheville, Virginia, and at the home of his aunt Anne ( Archibald's sister ) and her husband Judge James Ewell Brown ( Stuart's namesake ) at Danville.

As her mother traveled the country to pursue acting jobs, Nancy was raised in Bethesda, Maryland for the next six years by her aunt Virginia and uncle Audley Gailbraith.

His mother grew up at Shirley Plantation, one of the most elegant homes in Virginia.

After graduation, he returned to Virginia while awaiting assignment to find his mother on her deathbed ; she died at Ravensworth on July 26, 1829.

His mother was Elizabeth Kennedy-Laurie ( 1823 ?– 1879 ) who may have been born in Virginia and was of Scottish descent.

In 1879 Dickson, his mother, and two sisters moved from Britain to Virginia.

After emancipation, his mother moved the family to rejoin her husband in West Virginia ; there Washington worked in a variety of manual labor jobs before making his way to Hampton Roads seeking an education.

His family gained freedom in 1865 as the Civil War ended, and his mother took them to West Virginia to join her husband.

Seeking a way out, he borrowed money from his black foster mother Virginia Prentiss, bought the sloop Razzle-Dazzle from an oyster pirate named French Frank, and became an oyster pirate.

Clayton also may have been inspired by Anna Jarvis ' crusade to establish Mother's Day ; two months prior, Jarvis had held a celebration for her dead mother in Grafton, West Virginia, a town about 15 miles ( 24 km ) away from Fairmont.

* Virginia Clinton Kelley ( 1923 – 1994 ), mother of Bill Clinton

*" Interview with Virginia Howlett, mother of Verdana " Retrieved September 9, 2005

As the story goes, he had a habit of reaching out and grabbing things, and on doing so his mother Virginia would say, " Spanky, spanky, mustn't touch!

After the death of his wife, he never remarried but was father to another eleven illegitimate children from 1600 onwards by the following mistresses, Luisa de Duing, Argentina Provana, Catherine de Roussillon ( mother of Margherita di Savoia who was an ancestor of Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina ), Virginia Pallavicino, Anna Caterina Meraviglia and Anna Felizita Cusa.

— Virginia Rho at Turin, mother of two children:

His sister Margaret Wyatt was the mother of Henry Lee of Ditchley, from whom descend the Lees of Virginia, including Robert E. Lee.

Prior to her marriage, Anderson's mother had briefly attended the Virginia Seminary and College in Lynchburg and had worked as a schoolteacher in Virginia.

Julius's wife, Alan's mother, was Ethel Sara ( née Stoney ; 1881 – 1976 ), daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras Railways.

His father, Johan Henrik Aalto, was a Finnish-speaking land-surveyor and his mother, Selly ( Selma ) Matilda ( née Hackstedt ) was a postmistress.

Sakharov's mother was Yekaterina Alekseyevna Sakharova ( née Sofianos and of Greek ancestry ).

His father, Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby Jr., was a store clerk and his mother, Jane ( née McFarland ) Bixby, was a senior manager at I. Magnin & Company.

His mother was Matilda Beatrice DeMille ( née Samuel ), whose parents were both of German Jewish heritage.

His father, Donald Walton Lynch, was a research scientist working for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and his mother, Edwina " Sunny " Lynch ( née Sundholm ), was an English language tutor whose grandfather's parents had immigrated to the United States from Finland in the 19th century.

He is of English ( maternal ), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic ( paternal ) ancestry His father, Howard " Pete " Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth ( née Ivey ), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money.

His mother, Margaret Mary " Peggy " ( née Burns ) worked as a cinema usherette, while his father, Haywood Stenton " John " Jones was a promotions officer for Barnardo's.

His mother Mary ( née Bennett ) suffered from a benign brain tumour when Donald was very young.

His mother, Nora ( née Sullivan ), was a maid, and his father, John Leary, was an auto mechanic.

His mother, Ida Mabel Blair ( née Limouzin ), grew up in Moulmein, Burma, where her French father was involved in speculative ventures.

His father was Gebhard Himmler, a teacher, and his mother was Anna Maria Himmler ( née Heyder ), a devout Roman Catholic.

His mother, Anita Frances ( née Levy ; later Livingston ; May 22, 1926 — July 1981 ), was a lawyer and judge in New Orleans and, later, a Louisiana Supreme Court justice.

His mother, Jane Polk ( née Knox ), was a descendant of a brother of the Scottish religious reformer John Knox.

Jane Wallace ( née Wood ), Reno's mother, raised her children and then became an investigative reporter for the Miami News.

His mother, Ruth Hilda ( née Holmes ; 1916 – 1991 ), taught at an elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Norwood Bacon ( May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005 ), was a well-respected architect and a prominent Philadelphian who had been Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission for many years.

Rasmussen was born in Ilulissat, Greenland, the son of a Danish missionary, the vicar Christian Rasmussen, and an Inuit-Danish mother, Lovise Rasmussen ( née Fleischer ).

His father, Simon Stockhausen, was a schoolteacher, and his mother Gertrud ( née Stupp ) was the daughter of a prosperous family of farmers in Neurath in the Cologne Bight.

Martin Van Buren's mother was Maria Van Alen ( née Hoes ) Van Buren ( 1747 – 1818 ).

Her father was Dr. Aubrey Bourke of Ballina, County Mayo, while her mother was from Donegal, Dr. Tessa Bourke ( née O ' Donnell ) of Carndonagh, Inishowen.

His mother, Maria Panteleyevna Gorbacheva ( née Gopkalo ), was a kolkhoz worker.

His father, Noah Sr. ( 1722 – 1813 ), was a descendant of Connecticut Governor John Webster ; his mother Mercy ( née Steele ; 1727 – 1794 ) was a descendant of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony.

Abdul's father, Harry Abdul, was born in Aleppo, Syria, raised in Brazil, and subsequently immigrated to the United States ; her mother, Lorraine M. ( née Rykiss ), is originally from Minnedosa, Manitoba in Canada with ancestors from Russia and Ukraine, and Abdul derives Canadian citizenship through her.

Stanley Milgram was born in 1933 to a Jewish family in New York City, the child of a Romanian-born mother, Adele ( née Israel ), and a Hungarian-born father, Samuel Milgram.