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Blythe was married five times. [3] 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 and Cassidy remained married until his death in May 1946, which happened in a car crash. On August 19, 1946, three months after Blythe's death, Cassidy gave birth to their only child, the future Bill Clinton.
His parents had married on September 4, 1943, but this union later proved to be bigamous, as Blythe was still married to his fourth wife. [4] Virginia traveled to New Orleans to study nursing soon after Bill was born, leaving him in Hope with her parents Eldridge and Edith Cassidy, who owned and ran a small grocery store. [ 5 ]
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.
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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.
Jun 23, 2004 · He drowned, only 28 years old, married 2 years & 8 months, only 7 months of which he had spent with Mother. When I was about 12, sitting on my uncle’s porch in Hope, a man walked up the steps, looked at me, & said, “You’re Bill Blythe’s son.
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And so Willie Blythe — Bill Clinton’s grandfather — married young. It was 1906. He was 24 and his bride, Lou Birchie Ayers, was all of 13, and they started up a family right away.
