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He married for the first time in December 1935 to Virginia Adele Gash when they both were 17; they were divorced only thirteen months later. However, Virginia Gash and Blythe remained friends, and she visited him on occasion.
Blythe was born as one of nine children to William Jefferson Blythe Sr. (1884–1935), a poor farmer in Sherman, Texas, and his wife, the former Lou Birchie Ayers (1893–1946). He was of English and Scotch-Irish descent, with family lines in North America since the days of the Thirteen Colonies .
Her husband, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., died a few months before Clinton’s birth in a car accident on his way from Chicago to Arkansas. Billy (Blythe) Clinton spent the first four years of his life living in Hope, Arkansas, with his grandparents while his mother studied nursing in New Orleans.
He is the son of William Jefferson Blythe Jr., a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before his birth, and Virginia Dell Cassidy (later Virginia Kelley). Blythe had initially survived the crash, but drowned in a drainage ditch.
She and W.J. shared a bedroom with Earnest Blythe and his wife, Ola Maye. “I don’t require a whole lot. I never wanted to be rich, but I never lived with so little,” Adele Coffelt says.
Apr 5, 2016 · About William Jefferson Blythe, Jr. Father of President Bill Clinton. He died in a car accident on his way home to Hope, Arkansas, to visit his wife, who was five months pregnant with their son who would one day become President of the USA.
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When William Jefferson Blythe Jr. was born on 27 February 1918, in Sherman, Grayson, Texas, United States, his father, William Jefferson Blythe Sr., was 36 and his mother, Lou Birtchie Ayers, was 27. He married Virginia Adele Gash on 9 December 1935, in Woodville, Marshall, Oklahoma, United States.
