My brother and mother got no value from their religion when they died.

`` My father and mother died when I was two years old '', I said.

A Sterling Township family of six surviving children, whose mother died yesterday as the aftermath to a fire that also killed one of the children, found today they had the help of hundreds of neighbors and school friends.

Mrs. Eleanor Kowalski, 42, died yesterday afternoon in Holy Cross Hospital of burns suffered in a fire that followed a bottled gas explosion Saturday night at the flat of her widowed mother, Mrs. Mary Pankowski, in the adjoining suburb of Warren.

First, it came out after Mr. Cooper's will was settled -- he had died the year before -- that John and his mother weren't rich any more.

John's mother died not long after his marriage, and there was even less Cooper money left.

In Indiana, when Lincoln was nine, his mother Nancy died of milk sickness in 1818.

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.

Huxley's mother died in 1908 when he was 14.

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

Aga Khan I's mother later moved to India where she died in 1851.

Ammonius ' father, Hermias, died when he was a child, and his mother, Aedesia, raised him and his brother, Heliodorus, in Alexandria.

In 1180 the Emperor Manuel died and was succeeded by his ten year old son Alexios II, who was under the guardianship of his mother, Empress Maria.

As his mother crossed the threshold of the door on her return, the youth died, and " all Israel mourned for him.

Dürer's father died in 1502, and his mother died in 1513.

However, Otto died the same year, and although both mother and grandmother were appointed as co-regents for the child-king, Otto III, Theophano forced Adelaide to abdicate and exiled her.

Meanwhile his father died and his mother was cast into poverty in Corsica, still having four children to support.

His mother was murdered by the Nazis, and two other sisters, Gittel and Devorah, died in Nazi concentration camps.

His mother died on his 12th birthday, and his father, a country solicitor, later remarried, to an elder cousin, Lucy, in 1873.

His father died in 1989 of a heart attack and his mother died in 2002 of cancer.

After Rupert Potter died in 1914, Potter, now a wealthy woman, found Lindeth Howe, a large house in nearby Windermere where her mother lived until her death in 1931 at the age of 93.

The tales sometimes recounted that the woman, though called a fairy, was a ghost, often of a specific murdered woman, or a mother who died in childbirth.

Before he graduated from DeWitt Clinton, his mother died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

* Interview with Bill Watterson's mother ( interview begins around 7: 10 )

Habibullah Khan, Abdur Rahman Khan's eldest son and child of a slave mother, kept a close watch on the palace intrigues revolving around his father's more distinguished wife ( a granddaughter of Dost Mohammad ), who sought the throne for her own son.

By comparing mitochondrial DNA which is inherited only from the mother, geneticists have concluded that the last female common ancestor whose genetic marker is found in all modern humans, the so-called mitochondrial Eve, must have lived around 200, 000 years ago.

In March 1943 Orwell's mother died and around the same time he told Moore he was starting work on a new book, which would turn out to be Animal Farm.

Hidden beneath the paving around the pyramid was the tomb of Queen Hetepheres, sister-wife of Sneferu and mother of Khufu.

# Shooting himself in the forehead: As his mother reads the questionnaire for the dating service ( and answers it according to her preferences, not his ), Harold surreptitiously loads a revolver with live rounds, then wheels around and points it at his mother.

The two snakes coiled around a stick was a symbol of the god Ningishzida, which served as a mediator between humans and the mother goddess Ishtar or the supreme Ningirsu.

Because of this, the psychological effects on her childhood were profound, for "… in one stroke she experienced the loss of the two most nourishing and protective people around her — the loss of her father at death and her mother to grief ".

An Oxyrhynchus papyrus from around AD 200 and the Suda agree that Sappho had a mother called Cleïs and a daughter by the same name.

Livy depicts Servius ' mother as a captured Latin princess enslaved by the Romans ; her child is chosen as Rome's future king after a ring of fire is seen around his head.

However, the entire French-speaking population of Wallonia cannot be culturally considered Walloon, since a significant portion in the west ( around Tournai and Mons ) and smaller portions in the extreme south ( around Arlon ) possess other languages as mother tongues ( namely, Picard, Champenois, Luxembourgish, and Lorrain ).

Its storyline partially revolves around a young mulatto girl rejecting her mother and trying to " pass for white ".

The ghosts of his father ( Sicilius Leonatus ) and mother, who both died at Posthumus's birth, and his brothers, who died in battle, appear around Posthumus's sleeping body and complain to Jupiter of his grim fate.

Quaife was unable to find a direct link to Point du Sable, but identified descendants of Pierre Dandonneau living around the great lakes region in Detroit, Mackinac, and St Joseph, leading him to speculate that Point du Sable's father was a member of this family, whilst his mother was a slave.

Sviatoslav's father, Igor, was killed by the Drevlians around 945 and his mother, Olga, ruled as regent in Kiev until Sviatoslav's maturity ( ca.

The boy, probably born around 1109, followed his father as Count of Portugal in 1112, under the tutelage of his mother.

His father died when he was young, and so John, his two older brothers and his widowed mother struggled with poverty, moving around and living in various Castilian villages, with the last being Medina del Campo, to which he moved in 1551.

He was taken to Antwerp by his mother at around age ten to learn Dutch.

He reconciled with his stepfather years later, buying a house for him in the 1950s around the time Turner's mother died.

The surviving brothers were released in the autumn ; working for their release, their mother ( who died in January 1555 ) and their brother-in-law, Henry Sidney, had befriended the Spanish nobles around the new king consort, Philip of Spain.

His mother was also in the music business which allowed the family to often perform together touring around England.

The sketch revolved around a middle-aged, single mother who acted like a teenager, and was reliant upon the emotional and financial support of her teenage daughter, who behaved like a middle-aged woman.