President-elect Bill Clinton took his stepfather's name at age 15, but relatives on his father's side still consider him a Blythe. "He's our boy," one aunt says.
Clinton's father, William Jefferson Blythe III of Sherman, Texas, died in a traffic accident a few months before his son was born. His widow, Virginia, moved to Hope, Ark., to live with her parents. She gave birth there to William Jefferson Blythe IV, the future president of the United States.
Ann Blythe Grigsby still remembers her father, Earnest Blythe, Clinton's uncle, driving the family to Hope to visit her aunt and young cousin, Billy.
After Virginia married Roger Clinton and moved to Hot Springs, Ark. …
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