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Virginia Cassidy was born [[Jun 6]], 1923 in Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas to James Eldridge Cassidy and his wife Edith Grisham. She was married five times, twice to the same man. | Virginia Cassidy was born [[Jun 6]], 1923 in Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas to James Eldridge Cassidy and his wife Edith Grisham. She was married five times, twice to the same man. | ||
| − | In 1943 Virginia Dell "Ginger" Cassidy was at Tri-State Hospital in Shreveport studying to be a nurse. While there she met William Jefferson Blythe Jr who would become her first husband. On [[Apr 24]], 1943, he had enlisted or re-enlisted in the Army. They were married [[Sep 3]], 1943 in Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas. He then, in mid-October, went for a tour of duty overseas for World War II. Virginia finished up her training and went back to Hope where she lived with her parents and worked as a nurse. Just after Bill returned | + | In 1943 Virginia Dell "Ginger" Cassidy was at Tri-State Hospital in Shreveport studying to be a nurse. While there she met William Jefferson Blythe Jr who would become her first husband. On [[Apr 24]], 1943, he had enlisted or re-enlisted in the Army. They were married [[Sep 3]], 1943 in Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas. He then, in mid-October, went for a tour of duty overseas for World War II. Virginia finished up her training and went back to Hope where she lived with her parents and worked as a nurse. Just after Bill returned in December 1945, he and Virginia went to live in Chicago, Cook County, [[Illinois]] for three months, where "...Bill had a job waiting for him... selling heavy equipment...." (Maraniss p27) |
Virginia and Bill were going to look for a house in Hope and so she returned there and was living there with her parents when she got the news that he had died in an auto accident. She was pregnant and gave birth to William Jefferson Blythe III in 1946, who later became President Bill Clinton. Virginia was still living with, or near, her parents in Hope, when she met her second husband Roger "Dude" Clinton. | Virginia and Bill were going to look for a house in Hope and so she returned there and was living there with her parents when she got the news that he had died in an auto accident. She was pregnant and gave birth to William Jefferson Blythe III in 1946, who later became President Bill Clinton. Virginia was still living with, or near, her parents in Hope, when she met her second husband Roger "Dude" Clinton. | ||
