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.

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.

Addie and Anse ’ s daughter, Dewey Dell, whose recent sexual liaisons with a local farmhand named Lafe have left her pregnant, is so overwhelmed by anxiety over her condition that she barely mourns her mother ’ s death.

* Addie Bundren – Addie is the wife of Anse and the mother of Cash, Darl, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman.

Born in Glasgow, Montana, Steve Reeves moved to California at age 10 with his mother Goldie Reeves, after his father Lester Dell Reeves died in a farming accident.

On June 8, 1934, Dell agreed to a car ride to Pasadena with 38-year-old Dr. Carl Wagner, because he insisted that she take some time for relaxation between retakes of Shoot the Works, and to meet his mother, whom he wanted to show " how sweet a little movie star can be.

At 15, he produced his first record, " Liza Lee " by Roger and The Markees, and started his own record company, Dell Mont Recording, to release it ( also in his basement, using his savings and a $ 200 loan from his mother ).

Her mother Dell graduated from the University of Chicago and went on to become a successful banker who worked for Merrill Lynch.

Notable guest stars in the two specials included Frank Gorshin reprising his role as The Riddler from Batman, Howard Morris as Dr. Sivana, Gabriel Dell as Mordru, Charlie Callas as Sinestro, Jeff Altman as the Weather Wizard, Ruth Buzzi as Aunt Minerva, Mickey Morton as Solomon Grundy, June Gable as Rhoda Rooter, Pat Carroll as Hawkman's mother, A ' leshia Brevard as Giganta, William Schallert playing the Scarlet Cyclone ( more commonly referred to as " Retired Man ") and Brad Sanders as " Ghetto Man ".

In 2011, Cassidy recorded a public service announcement for Alzheimer's research and prevention — due to his mother, Evelyn Ward, having the disease — and said that he will champion that cause whenever possible.

She played Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children in the situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family ( 1970 – 1974 ), co-starring her real-life stepson David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy.

'" Cassidy discussed his relationship with his stepmother on the show: " She wasn't my mother, and I can be very open, and we can speak, and we became very close friends.

In 2004, Shirley returned to Broadway in a revival of 42nd Street, portraying diva " Dorothy Brock " opposite her son Patrick Cassidy — the first time a mother and son were known to star together on Broadway.

Ann Gillies, the mother of Butch Cassidy was born and lived on Tyneside, Newcastle, North East England, before moving to America with her parents in the 1850s, where she married Butch ’ s father, Maximilian Parker, in Utah.

The boys finally arrive on Easter morning and shout their greetings across the glen to their family during a lakeside Easter Sunrise service, much to the amusement of Ralph's younger sister Beth ( Winona Ryder ) and mother Ev ( Joanna Cassidy ) and embarrassment of Scott's mother Jessie ( Mariette Hartley ) and father Cliff ( Bruce Dern ).

By the end of the series, Cassidy relocated to Paris to be with her mother.

* Annette O ' Toole as Lisa Bridges: ( 1996 – 1997, 1998 ) A caterer by trade, she is Nash's ex-wife and mother of Cassidy.

He was 15 years old when his mother Bernice Pearl and new stepfather, Ed Cassidy ( later to become a founding member of the band Spirit, with Randy ), moved to New York City in the summer of 1966 because Cassidy had a number of jazz gigs lined up.

In 2011, Cassidy began to appear in a recurring role on the ABC series Body of Proof as Judge Joan Hunt, the mother of Megan Hunt, Dana Delany's character in the show.

In season six, Vic's daughter Cassidy angrily confronted him after listening to her mother talking about the baby's paternity over the telephone.

Among them were the Jackson family: mother Carol ( Lindsey Coulson ), her four children, Bianca ( Patsy Palmer ), Robbie ( Dean Gaffney ), Sonia ( Natalie Cassidy ), and Billie ( Devon Anderson ), as well as Carol's partner Alan Jackson ( Howard Antony ).