great-niece

"When I asked her how old she was, she knew she was 113 but thought she was young," Mary C. Hollins, Winn's great-niece, said in an Associated Press article.

Oldest African American, and one of my church ladies, carried no anger, no stress Courtland Milloy 2011

I am entranced by my four year old great-niece, Sophia, who insists on walking ahead of me wherever we go, "Because I'm the leader, Aunt Ang."

Angela Himsel: Blessed Are Those Who Enter: Sukkot, Hospitality and Home Angela Himsel 2010

Gandhi's pejorative reference to nakedness is ironic considering that, as Mr. Lelyveld details, when he was in his 70s and close to leading India to independence, he encouraged his 17-year-old great-niece, Manu, to be naked during her "nightly cuddles" with him.

Among the Hagiographers Andrew Roberts 2011

I am entranced by my four year old great-niece, Sophia, who insists on walking ahead of me wherever we go, "Because I'm the leader, Aunt Ang."

Angela Himsel: Blessed Are Those Who Enter: Sukkot, Hospitality and Home Angela Himsel 2010

I am entranced by my four year old great-niece, Sophia, who insists on walking ahead of me wherever we go, "Because I'm the leader, Aunt Ang."

Angela Himsel: Blessed Are Those Who Enter: Sukkot, Hospitality and Home Angela Himsel 2010

I picked up the trail of his family -- not easy back in the dark ages of 2005 before certain handy databases existed -- and found a good-natured great-niece who obligingly swabbed for history's sake.

Megan Smolenyak: USS Monitor: Could William Bryan Be One of the Skeletons in the Turret? Megan Smolenyak 2011

Until her death she was often taken care of by her great-niece Mary C. Hollins, who received a standing ovation at her funeral.

Shreveport bids farewell to 113-year-old woman 2011

Young said Winn was one of two known people left in the United States whose parents both were almost certainly born into slavery because documents show they were born before the end of the Civil War, though her great-niece Mary C. Hollins says Winn never acknowledged that.

Oldest living African American dies at 113 2011

I am entranced by my four year old great-niece, Sophia, who insists on walking ahead of me wherever we go, "Because I'm the leader, Aunt Ang."

Angela Himsel: Blessed Are Those Who Enter: Sukkot, Hospitality and Home Angela Himsel 2010

Sahgal was born in Bombay and is the daughter of novelist Nayantara Sahgal and great-niece of former Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

Gita Sahgal's dispute with Amnesty International puts human rights group in the dock 2010