HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Dwells another race, with other customs and language.
Only along the shore of the mournful and misty Atlantic
Linger a few Acadian peasants, whose fathers from exile
Wandered back to their native land to die in its bosom;
In the fisherman's cot the wheel and the loom are still busy;
Maidens still wear their Norman caps and their kirtles of homespun,
And by the evening fire repeat Evangeline's story,
While from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced, neighboring ocean
Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
from "Evangeline," pub. 1857
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
American Poet, Educator, Linguist
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was my cousin. Here is the lineage:
1st Generation: TIMM, Barbara Jean Koska
2nd Generation: KOSKA, Clement Francis (father)
2nd Generation: RUSSELL, Marian Marguerette (mother)
3rd Generation: RUSSELL, Robert Lee (grandfather)
3rd Generation: TAYLOR, Ada Icena (grandmother)
4th Generation: RUSSELL, James A (great-grandfather)
4th Generation: WILHELM, Evangeline Anna (great-grandmother)
5th Generation: WILHELM, Joseph (great-great-grandfather)
5th Generation: HITCHCOCK, Clarissa (great-great-grandmother)
6th Generation: HITCHCOCK, John Chandler (great-great-great-grandfather)
6th Generation: WADSWORTH, Arvilla (great-great-great-grandmother)
Arvilla Wadsworth Hitchcock and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow were fifth cousins.
That makes me the fifth cousin, five times removed of the poet Longfellow.
Arvilla's granddaughter, Evangeline Anna Wilhelm, my great-grandmother, b. 11/11/1857, was named for Longfellow's poem, "Evangeline." She was born in the same year the poem was published.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Relationship Terms
First Cousin:
Your first cousins are the people in your family who have two of the same grandparents as you. In other words, they are the children of your aunts and uncles.
Second Cousin:
Your second cousins are the people in your family who have the same great-grandparents as you., but not the same grandparents.
Third, Fourth, and Fifth Cousins:
Your third cousins have the same great-great-grandparents, fourth cousins have the same great-great-great-grandparents, and so on.
Removed
When the word "removed" is used to describe a relationship, it indicates that the two people are from different generations. You and your first cousins are in the same generation (two generations younger than your grandparents), so the word "removed" is not used to describe your relationship.
The words "once removed" mean that there is a difference of one generation. For example, your mother's first cousin is your first cousin, once removed. This is because your mother's first cousin is one generation younger than your grandparents and you are two generations younger than your grandparents. This one-generation difference equals "once removed."
Twice removed means that there is a two-generation difference. You are two generations younger than a first cousin of your grandmother, so you and your grandmother's first cousin are first cousins, twice removed.
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