The caption on this photo of Sen. Byrd is a bit of a stretch. You cannot really make yourself an orphan. They might have been referring to the death of his mother when he was one year old and was given to the custory of an aunt and uncle. That was a while ago.during another flu epidemic. Byrd will be 92 on November 20.
Byrd was born Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr., in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in 1917. When he was one year old, his mother, Ada Mae Kirby, died in the 1918 Flu Pandemic. In accordance with his mother's wishes, his father, Cornelius Calvin Sale dispersed the family children among relatives. Sale Jr. was given to the custody of an aunt and an uncle, Vlurma and Titus Byrd, who renamed him Robert Carlyle Byrd and raised him in the coal-mining region of southern West Virginia.
Byrd was valedictorian of Mark Twain High School[7] and, in 1937, he married his high-school sweetheart, Erma Ora James. And that’s only if wipipedia is a bit more accurate than the 1974 BJ caption.
[Clip from the Buffum memorabilia]
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