He told the president that he had lost a son in the fighting at Gettysburg.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

In 1863, Isabella gave birth to a son, Jackie, who died two years later.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

The couple had three children, two daughters and a son who died very young.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

Brown lost a son in a pro-slavery attack on his home at Osawatomie,Kansas.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

But shop owners say now they only see "essential customers" those who have to buy for the marriage of a son or a daughter.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

There was drumming and dancing and an exuberant farewell for a man many here see not just as president of the United States, but a son of Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

I have a son like him. So I can do something.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

Kallawaya is passed down within families from father to son as a way of protecting the special knowledge of healers.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Florence Joplin also got permission for her son to use a piano in one of the houses she cleaned in Texarkana.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Kevin's mother thinks the robot has had a calming influence, helping her son get along better with his friends.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

"The Lomaxes,John and Alan, thrfather and son team and then Bess to a certain extent worked at the Library of Congress.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

Once,on a business trip to London, Charles Homer bought a set of drawing examples for his son to copy.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

shouted a happy voice. And with a little sobbing cry Bobby's mother opened her arms to her son.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

John Henry lifted his son into the air.He told his wife, "A man ain't nothing but a man.

VOA: special.2009.02.21