He was especially close to his eldest sibling and only sister, whose death in her early 30's moved him deeply.
Students with siblings already in high school follow their eldest sibling so that all children from a family attend the same high school.
She was the second of five siblings, but with the death of her eldest sibling shortly after birth, Audrey became the oldest.
No one believed the child so he retrieved his eldest sibling out the next night to watch for the ghost, but it did not appear.
The three eldest siblings were born in India and the two younger ones in Ukraine.
As eldest siblings, they consider themselves the heads of their respective families: their annual Christmas letter has 415 recipients.
Komnatov was the eldest sibling in a family of four brothers and one sister.
The eldest sibling, he said, held a certain authority over the two younger kids, who were prone to squabble.
Those who enter the house of a family must say hello to the parents of the household using the name of the couple's eldest sibling.
His eldest sibling Christopher drowned in 1941, aged two.