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KARIN FISCHER. "Erma Byrd recalled for steadfast nature, Senator's wife to be buried beside grandson in Virginia tomorrow."Charleston Daily Mail. Gazette Daily Inc. 2006.HighBeam Research. 5 Nov. 2012 <http://www.highbeam.com>.
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KARIN FISCHER. "Erma Byrd recalled for steadfast nature, Senator's wife to be buried beside grandson in Virginia tomorrow."Charleston Daily Mail. Gazette Daily Inc. 2006. Retrieved November 05, 2012 from HighBeam Research:http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-9952661.html
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WASHINGTON - As a Depression-era teenager, Robert Byrd courted hisfuture wife with chewing gum and candy acquired from a wealthierschoolmate.

"That's how you court your girl, with another boy's bubble gum,"he said.

Erma Ora James was born June 12, 1917, in Floyd County, Va. Hercoal miner father's work soon took the family to Stotesbury inRaleigh County, where she graduated from Mark Twain High School.

That is where she met her future husband, but she didn't catchRobert Byrd's eye immediately. Instead, Byrd first noticed herfather's fiddle.

"I had seen his two daughters, but I was more interested in fiddlemusic at that point," Robert Byrd said of Fred …

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