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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.
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.
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 .
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.
Dec 30, 2021 · William (Bill) Jefferson Blythe III was born on August 19, 1946, in the small city of Hope, Arkansas. His parents were William Jefferson Blythe Jr. and Virginia Cassidy Blythe. But when he was still an infant, his father tragically died in a car accident.
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Jun 22, 2004 · My mother named me William Jefferson Blythe III after my father, William Jefferson Blythe Jr., one of nine children of a poor farmer in Sherman, Texas, who died when my father was...
