Lineal descent means that anyone directly descended from original tribal enrollees could be eligible for tribal enrollment, regardless of how much native blood they have. A collateral descendant is a legal term for a relative descended from a brother or sister of an ancestor, and thus a niece, nephew, or cousin.
All poems of William Cullen Bryant Â». an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Bryant was born on November 3, 1794, in a log cabin near Cummington, Massachusetts; the home of his birth is today marked with a plaque. He was the second son of Peter Bryant, a doctor and later a state legislator, and Sarah Snell.
Zora Neale Hurston. A pre-eminent writer of the twentieth century African American literature, Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama. She was the fifth of eight children of John Hurston, a carpenter and Lucy Hurston, a school teacher. The family moved to Eatonville, Florida before Zora turned one.